Nuclear Risk Quotes

If a nuclear power is willing to be bolder than another, it can take limited conventional actions without fear of major pushback.

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

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.

The reward for using the atom's power towards man's welfare is great and sure. The punishment for its misuse would seem to be death and the destruction of the civilization that has been growing for a thousand years.

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

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.

So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good.

No nuclear weapon has detonated. Some nuclear weapons have exploded and spread radioactive plutonium…. The nuclear weapons of today are much safer than those of the 1980s. I worry about the way they are managed however.

In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

Ronald Reagan said something really interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event and I think that Donald Trump is exactly who governor Reagan warned about.

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

Nearly one third of Japan would have had to evacuate from their communities…. I came to believe that we should halt further operations of nuclear energy that entail such huge risks…. Japan can supply its energy needs without nuclear power

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'

The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.

These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.

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

The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.