【正見新聞網2011年03月16日】
法新社報導，歐盟能源事務專員厄廷格(Guenther Oettinger)16日表示，日本核電站的局勢“已經失控”，可能出現的更大災難可能導致更多人死去。
厄廷格向歐洲議會下屬的一個委員會指出：“該核電站實際上已經失控。”他表示，日本面臨著“一場巨大災難”。
厄廷格還稱：“在未來幾個小時中可能出現進一步的災難事件，這可能對生活在這個島國的人民的生命產生威脅。”
為防止反應堆熔化產生核泄漏，日本工作人員一直在向福島第一核電站的過熱反應堆注水。上周五的大地震(專題)後，反應堆的冷卻系統已經失靈，福島核電站的多個反應堆已先後發生氫氣引發的爆炸。
EU’s Oettinger Channeling Media Reports on Japan Rattles Market
March 16, 2011, 1:43 PM EDT
By Jonathan Stearns
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Investors on edge over the prospect of a Japanese nuclear meltdown took their cue from a European Union commissioner who proclaimed a “major disaster” may be on its way, before admitting his remarks were partly based on media reports.
U.S. stocks tumbled after EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger testified to a European Parliament committee today in Brussels that the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant risks provoking a “major disaster” in Japan.
“The site is effectively out of control,” Oettinger told the panel. “In the coming hours, there could be further catastrophic events.”
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index sank 1.6 percent after his remarks.
Oettinger also said a further deterioration in the situation could lead to the deaths of people in Japan. “We are somewhere between a disaster and a major disaster,” he said.
His overall assessment is based on information from the European Commission in Brussels, the Tokyo-based EU mission to Japan and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, as well as media reports, Oettinger told Bloomberg after his appearance in the parliament. “All these experts who read with better glasses than mine,” Oettinger said.
Oettinger’s spokeswoman, Marlene Holzner, told reporters in a briefing earlier today in Brussels that the commission’s information about the situation in Japan “is partly from the media, partly from the government.”
--Editors: Jones Hayden, James Hertling
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan Stearns in Brussels at [email protected]
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