Willard Libby Quotes

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

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

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

I love nuclear.

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

Leave the atom alone.

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

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.

Nuclear fission

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.

I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix.

We need nuclear energy now, and we will need it in the future.

We should be building more nuclear today.

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

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.

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

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.

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

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.

Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.