Jeff Goodell Quotes

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.

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

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

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

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.

GOP seems to stand for Gas, Oil, and Plutonium.

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

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

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

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.

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

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

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

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

Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

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.

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

I want to work hard toward my goal that there will be zero nuclear power generation.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.