Naoto Kan Quotes

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

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'

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.

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

I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it, if it creates radiation.

The central government wants to increase the number of nuclear power plants but we believe nuclear plants have their inherent problems.

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

We should be building more nuclear today.

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

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

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.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.

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

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

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

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

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.

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

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.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

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.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

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