Tom Udall Quotes

Nobody wants nuclear waste in their back yards. In a democracy where everyone has a say, most people say NO!.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.

I've been working tirelessly in the House to help ensure Nevada does not become a dumping ground for the rest of the nation's nuclear waste, and I will continue that fight in the Senate.

The House has repeatedly had overwhelming votes in support of continuing the Yucca Mountain repository.

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

I don’t want the West to be used as the place where we store the nation’s nuclear waste.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

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 do not believe that nuclear power is worth it, if it creates radiation.

I will continue to be a voice for Nevadans in the Senate, opposing Yucca Mountain and working to identify viable alternatives for long-term repositories in areas that are proven safe and whose communities consent to that storage.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

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

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.

These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.