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More On The Fatal Japan Nuclear Reactor Accident

1 - Which words in the text are synonymous with

- to examine = to inspect
- to explode = to burst
- to stay = to remain
- to be programmed for inspection = scheduled
- the inside of piping = interior
- at regular intervals = periodically
- to be called = termed
- plant director = manager
- deadly incident = fatal
- to happen = to take place
- authorised = licensed
- that is why = therefore

2 - Translate into French

- the turbine hall = la salle des turbines
- the pipe walls = les parois du tuyau
- thickness = épaisseur
- thin = mince
- the inescapable lesson = la leçon incontournable

3 - Find in the text the English equivalents for

- un tuyau de retour = a return pipe
- dans un état grave = in serious condition
- eau sous haute pression = high pressure water
- taux d’usure accéléré = accelerated wear rates
- calculs prudents = conservative calculations

4 - True or false? Justify your answer with a quotation

- No worker was killed in the Mihama accident
► False! Four workers were killed.
- The failed pipe had just been inspected
► False! It was scheduled for inspection in November or August.
- A similar accident had never happened before
► False! A similar accident took place in the Surrey Nuclear Power Station in Virginia in 1986.
- The nuclear industry is aware of the problem of pipe erosion-corrosion
► False! The nuclear industry does not understand as much about eroson-corrosion  as it thought.

5 - L’ordre de traduction dans les mots surcomposés

- dans Nuclear Reactor Accident, nuclear se rapporte-t-il à reactor ou à accident ?
► reactor
- dans quality control manager, quality se rapporte-t-il à control ou à manager ?
► control
- dans power plant piping, power se rapporte-t-il à plant ou à piping ?
► plant
- dans pressure water reactor, pressure se rapporte-t-il à water ou à reactor ?
► water

6 - Write out the figures at length (écrire les indications chiffrées en toutes lettres en anglais)

- a 50 cm (20 inch) return pipe = a fifty centimeter (twenty inch) return pipe
- on August 14th = on August fourteenth
- the pipe walls measured 10 millimeters in thickness (.4 inches) = the pipe walls measured 10 millimeters in thickness (point four inches)
- it measured just 1.4 millimeters (.056 inches) = it measured just one point four millimeters (point o  five six inches)
- 1976 - 1986 - 1996 = nineteen seventy-six - nineteen eighty-six - nineteen ninety-six
- 826 megawatts =  eight hundred and twenty-six megawatts