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哈尔滨市2014高考英语阅读理解、动词短语精讲讲练（15）及答案 The crisis at the damaged Fukushima Dai-lchi Nuclear Power Station in northern Japan has raised worries about radiation risks．We spoke Tuesday with Jonathan Links, an expert in radiation health sciences, and also a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who says workers within the nuclear plant are the only people at the risk of extremely high doses （） of radiation．For other people, he says, there may be a long-term worry．People can get cancer from low doses of radiation in a nuclear accident．If the situation is serious enough, officials could take steps like telling people not to eat locally grown food or drink the water． JONATHAN LINKS: But that would only be the case if there was a significant release （） and, because of wind direction, the radioactive material was blown over the area, and then into and onto water, plants, fruits and vegetables．The reactors at Fukushima are on the Pacific coast．But Professor Links says people should not worry about any radioactive material leaking（） into the ocean．JONATHAN LINKS: Even in a worst accident, the sea provides a very high degree of dilution （） ．So the concentration （） of radioactivity in the seawater would still be quite low． Japan is the only country to have had atomic bombs dropped on it．That memory from World War Two would create a stronger psychological sensitivity to radiation exposure． Next month is the 25th anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chemobyl in Ukraine．The 1986 event was the worlds worst accident in the nuclear power industry． A new report says over 6000 cases of thyroid cancer have been found．These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine．The report says that by 2005 the cancers had resulted in fifteen deaths．The cancers were largely caused by drinking contaminated （） milk from cows eating grass where radioactive material had fallen． 57．The passage mainly tells us ______．