James Howard Kunstler Quotes

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

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

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 many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

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

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

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

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'

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

I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

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

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.

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 France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?

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.

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

I love nuclear.

We absolutely want to harness nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. There should be no doubt about Saudi Arabian intentions. Whatever we do is going to be under strict compliance with international agreements.

Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.

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.