I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.
Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.
Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!
We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.
When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it.
