Lynn Good Quotes

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

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

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good.

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

The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

We back Hinkley Point project. It's very important for France; it's very important for the nuclear sector and EDF.

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'

Nuclear plants are part of the backbone of our electric grid. They are reliable, they are clean.

In the Navy, I slept mere feet from a nuclear reactor, so I have no knee-jerk opposition to traditional reactors.

You ought not be afraid of nuclear, but respectful of it. Yes, it has dangers, but it also has benefits. If not for nuclear, much of the medicine that's saving lives today would not be in existence.

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on another 25 years. But lately I am on board with Nicole Foss's argument that we will not have the capital or even the social cohesion to build anymore nuke plants.

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear.

In America, we're tired. We're exhausted in terms of nuclear.

I believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon.

I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix.