Don Sherwood Quotes

Leave the atom alone.

There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration.

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.

In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was dedicated to finding peaceful uses for atomic energy.

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

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

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.

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

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

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

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

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.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

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

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

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.

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

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

Uranium Committee of the National Bureau of Standards

By developing atomic energy for peaceful purposes, you reach the nuclear option. There are no two atomic energies.