Carlo Rubbia Quotes

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

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

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

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

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.

Nuclear power is cost-competitive with other low-carbon technology and is a crucial part of our energy mix, along with new sources of power such as shale gas.

Nuclear represents a significant low-carbon opportunity. The electricity it produces is green and reliable.

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

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

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

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

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

I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power was a logical way to do something to help the environment.

Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.

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.

If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

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.

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

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

Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around.

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.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

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