Nuclear Reactors Quotes

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

Nuclear fission

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

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

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

Fission is like kissing your wife. Fusion is like kissing your mistress.

The biggest risks posed by nuclear power come not from the technology but from the human institutions that govern how we use it.

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.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

I want to work hard toward my goal that there will be zero nuclear power generation.

When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.

Nuclear represents a significant low-carbon opportunity. The electricity it produces is green and reliable.

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

I love nuclear.

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.

We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.

We have large resources of uranium that we are exploring, and we are extremely encouraged.

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

People have to carry on with their lives, so only so much direct action can take place. Anti-nuclear activism may look dormant from appearances, but it’s there, like magma. It’s still brewing, and the next trigger might be another big protest or political change,

There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that would make a bunch of another element called plutonium, and then you would pull that out, and then you would burn that. That's called "breeding" in a fast reactor. That is bad because plutonium is nuclear weapons material. It's messy. The processing you have to get through is not only environmentally difficultly, it's extremely expensive.

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.