William Scranton Quotes

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.

If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good.

In the Navy, I slept mere feet from a nuclear reactor, so I have no knee-jerk opposition to traditional reactors.

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.

American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

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

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.

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.

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.

Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

The biggest risks posed by nuclear power come not from the technology but from the human institutions that govern how we use it.

The lesson of Chernobyl is not an indictment of nuclear power as such. Nuclear power, designed well, regulated properly, cared for meticulously, has a place in the world’s energy supply.

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

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

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

Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!

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

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.

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

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

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.