Ron Ziegler Quotes

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

I love nuclear.

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

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.

We should be building more nuclear today.

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

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

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

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

For years, I have been a strong supporter of clean, safe nuclear energy as an important part of our energy mix.

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

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.

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.

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

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.

There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.

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

We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.

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.

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.

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

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.