Abdus Salam Quotes
Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.
Salam, Abdus. Interview. War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, WGBH Educational Foundation, 1986.
Rocky Flats was operated for the government by Dow Chemical Company, which unfortunately violated the terms of their contract and improperly buried nuclear waste which ended up producing so much radiation that the plant had to be closed down and the government had to buy up property around the nuclear plant as a buffer zones so that private people would not receive high radiation doses by being too close to the plant.
Rickover, the father of the nuclear submarine was not only an expert in nuclear reactors and power, but he was known as a safety perfectionist with a safety record in the Navy that is still marveled at. President Carter, as a naval officer, had worked for Rickover and himself was technologically knowledgeable about nuclear power. He asked his old mentor to chair the investigating the Three Mile Island incident. Rickover actually recommended to the President that much of the report be secret, assuming that reform would take place quickly if the nuclear power industry were not killed by the damning expose of inept personnel and the lack of safety processes with a very dangerous process. However, few reforms were made nationally, and Rickover, 6 years later, grew to regret his recommendation for secrecy.
The Chernobyl accident killed many, polluted a huge section of Russia for years, and even spread radiation thorough out Europe and Scandinavia.
Mohammad Abdus Salam NI(M) SPk, was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize (after Anwar Sadat of Egypt).
