Taylor Wilson Quotes

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.

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

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

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.

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

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.

I'm going to build a reactor, that's for sure.

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

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.

I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.

For the first time in history we have got more energy out of something than we put in … [but] …. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine.

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

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future .... This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs .... A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory.

There is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us .... One day man will release and control its almost infinite power.