Stephen Moore Quotes

I love nuclear.

The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.

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

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

We are determined to provide for the nuclear fuel of such plants inside the country, at the hands of local Iranian scientists. We are going to follow on this path.

As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy.

Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.

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

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

By developing atomic energy for peaceful purposes, you reach the nuclear option. There are no two atomic energies.

To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world.

We need nuclear energy now, and we will need it in the future.

We should be building more nuclear today.

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

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

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

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

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

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

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.