Nuclear Power Quotes

• A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Science, Power, Years

  "The Seattle Times" Newspaper, January 3, 1994.

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• All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Years, Office

  "Burlington Free Press" (Vermont), February 15, 1980.

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• Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Environmental, Energy, Needs

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• The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.

  James Lovelock

  Nuclear, Global Warming, Halt

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• Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water

  Albert Einstein

  Water, Nuclear, Way

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• Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.

  Mark Z. Jacobson

  Hands, World, Weapons

  "Nuclear power is too risky" by Mark Z. Jacobson, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2010.

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• The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

  James Lovelock

  Oil, Nuclear, Rivals

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• We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

  Abdul Kalam

  Nuclear, Requirements, Remember

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• I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Thinking, Nuclear, Plant

  "TalkAsia" with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2011.

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• For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

  James Buchan

  Years, Tasks, Three

  "A complete waste of energy". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2002.

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• Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Commitment, Unemployment

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• Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

  Philippe Kahn

  Phones, People, Evil

  "Father of the Camera Phone". NPR Interview, January 06, 2007.

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• We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

  David J. C. MacKay

  Wind, Feet, Nuclear

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• Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Important, Nuclear, Fuel

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• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Telegram to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946

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• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Achievement, Energy, Nuclear

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• While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

  Naoto Kan

  Taken, Safety, Risk

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• I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

  James Lovelock

  Nuclear, Campaigns, Surprise

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• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Nuclear Terrorism, Weapons

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• No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

  Joe Barton

  Nuclear, United States, Kind

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• If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.

  Judy Biggert

  United States, Nuclear, Growing

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• What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Nuclear, Roles

  "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.

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• The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

  Anthony Mason

  Country, War, Emotional

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• We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

  George W. Bush

  Nuclear, Energy, Source

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