Petra Kelly Quotes

For the first time in history we have got more energy out of something than we put in … [but] …. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine.

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

Atoms for War and Atoms for Peace are Siamese twins.

These experiments might make it possible to produce power by means of nuclear energy and radioactive elements. Unfortunately also perhaps atomic bombs.

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.

Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.

The nuclear industry in America was built on the back of the Defense Department.

The Physicist was the darling of the cold war …atomic energy was responsible for so much of the politics of the Cold War.

There is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us .... One day man will release and control its almost infinite power.

There is nothing more costly than nuclear power.

I have more nuclear physicists living in my district than in any other district.

Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?

Iran must stop all proliferation-sensitive activities, including uranium enrichment, and we will not accept actions that support the continuation of such enrichment.

Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.

I love nuclear.

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)

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

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

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.