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| Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Program | 加拿大核燃料废物处置方案 |
| liability for nuclear damages Subjection to a legal obligation, such as financial recompense or ecological reparations, for any harm or damage inflicted on persons, property or the environment during the production, use or transport of radioactive materials used as an energy source or in weaponry | 核破坏责任 (服从法定的义务，诸如作为能源或武器，在生产、使用、运输放射性物质过程中对人身财产及坏境造成破坏的，要承担相应的经济补偿和生态补偿。) |
| nuclear accident An event occurring in a nuclear power plant or anywhere that radioactive materials are used, stored, or transported and involving the release of potentially dangerous levels of radioactive materials into the environment | 核事故 (发生在核电厂或放射性物质使用、储存或运输的任何地方及涉及有潜在危险水平的放射性物质释放到环境中的事件。) |
| nuclear debate The ongoing, public discussion and dispute over the uses of energy | 核辩论 (正在进行的，关于能源使用的公开讨论及争论。) |
| nuclear energy Energy released by nuclear fission or nuclear fusion | 原子能 (通过核裂变或核聚变释放能量。) |
| nuclear energy legislation | 核能立法 |
| nuclear energy use Nuclear energy is employed in the industrial sector, in the production of other energy types, in the medical and scientific research field, in transportation, in the production of nuclear weapons, etc. | 核能利用 (核能被使用在工业界、其他类型能源生产、医疗和科研领域、交通、核武器生产等。) |
| nuclear explosion accident, An unintentional release of energy from a rapid reaction of atomic nuclei yielding high temperatures and radiation potentially harmful to human health and the environment | 核爆炸事故, 来自原子核的快速反应而释放的能量，可产生高温和潜在地危害人类健康和环境的辐射。 |
| nuclear facility A place, including buildings, where all the activities relating to nuclear research are performed | 核设施 (一个地方，包括实施关于核研究的所有活动的建筑物。) |
| nuclear fission | 核裂变〔分裂〕 |
| nuclear fission The division of an atomic nucleus into parts of comparable mass; usually restricted to heavier nuclei such as isotopes of uranium, plutonium, and thorium | 核裂变 (原子核分裂成质量相近的部分；通常局限于重核如的铀同位素、钚、钍。) |
| nuclear fuel Nuclear fuels are obtained from inorganic minerals extracted by mining. Although they are at least partially consumed when used in nuclear reactors for the production of heat, they differ from fossil fuels in the way they release energy. Burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas, is a chemical reaction. Nuclear fuels, such as uranium, are destroyed by a process of spontaneous disintegration, called fission, and prompted by natural radioactivity. If the process is left to occur naturally in uranium-bearing rock, the rate of change is imperceptibly small. In a man-made nuclear reactor the energy-releasing processes of disintegration, which in the natural state happen slowly over thousands of millions of years, are compressed into minutes. The release of energy is harnessed to generate steam which drives electricity generators | 核燃料 (核燃料是从开采提取的无机矿产品中得到。虽然它们都至少有部分消耗用于核反应堆生产热能，但它们与化石燃料在释放能量方式上有所差别。化石燃料的燃烧，如煤、石油和天然气，是一种化学反应。核子燃料，例如铀，由称为裂变的自发衰变过程所消耗并由天然放射性引起。如果这个过程是自然发生在含铀岩石中，其变化率很小。在人造核反应堆中，在自然状态下发生缓慢长达数千万年的能量释放的衰变过程，被压缩到几分钟。释放的能量是用来产生驱动电力发电机的蒸汽。) |
| nuclear fuel element A piece of nuclear fuel which has been formed and coated, and is ready to be placed in a reactor fuel assembly | 核燃料成分 (已形成或涂层的核燃料块，并准备将放置在反应堆燃料组件中。) |
| nuclear fusion Combination of two light nuclei to form a heavier nucleus with release of some binding energy | 核聚变 (两个轻原子核结合，形成一个较重的原子核，同时伴随结合能的释放。) |
| nuclear hazard Risk or danger to human health or the environment posed by radiation emanating from the atomic nuclei of a given substance, or the possibility of an uncontrolled explosion originating from a fusion or fission reaction of atomic nuclei | 核危害 (从一个给定的物质的原子核所产生的辐射所带来的风险或对人体健康或环境的危害或源自原子核聚变或裂变反应的不受控制的爆炸的可能性。) |
| nuclear physics | 原子核物理学 |
| nuclear physics The study of the characteristics, behaviour and internal structures of the atomic nucleus | 核物理 (原子核的特征、行为和内部结构的研究。) |
| nuclear power plant A power plant in which nuclear energy is converted into heat for use in producing steam for turbines, which in turn drive generators that produce electric power | 核电站 (核能电厂，其中的核能被转换成热能以产生推动涡轮的蒸汽，从而驱动发电机产生电。) |
| nuclear power plant disposal | 核电厂处置 |
| nuclear reaction A reaction involving a change in an atomic nucleus, such as fission, fusion, neutron capture, or radioactive decay, as distinct from a chemical reaction, which is limited to changes in the electron structure surrounding the nucleus | 核反应 (涉及原子核的变化如裂变、聚变、中子俘获或放射性衰变的反应，区别于化学反应，仅限于环绕原子核的电子结构变化。) |
| nuclear reactor | 核反应堆〔器〕 |
| nuclear reactor Device which creates heat and energy by starting and controlling atomic fission | 核反应堆 (启动和控制原子裂变以产生热量和能量的装置。) |
| nuclear research centre A facility in which scientists and other researchers study the behavior and characteristics of atomic nuclei through testing and other forms of experimentation, often to invent new technology with scientific, medical and industrial purposes | 核研究中心 (一个研究场所，在这里科学家和其他研究人员通过测试和其他形式的实验来研究原子核的行为及其特点，经常发明带有科学、医学和工业用途的新技术。) |
| nuclear risk A risk connected to the functioning of nuclear power plants, by the storage or transportation of radioactive materials and involving the release of potentially dangerous levels of radioactive materials into the environment | 核风险 (与核电站的功能中存储或运输放射性物质和涉及潜在危险级别的放射性物质释放到环境中有关的风险。) |
| nuclear safety Measures and techniques implemented to reduce the possibility of incidence and the potential harm posed by radioactive substances used as an energy source, a test material or in weaponry | 核安全 (实现降低作为一种能源、材料或武器的放射性物质引起的发生可能性和潜在危害的措施和技术。) |
| nuclear test Test performed to evaluate nuclear weapons | 核试验 (进行评估核武器的试验。) |
| "Nuclear" test | 核子放射性试验 |
| nuclear weapon Any bomb, warhead, or projectile using active nuclear material to cause a chain reaction upon detonation | 核武器 (使用现行的核材料引起连锁爆炸反应的任何炸弹、弹头或者发射体。) |
