Nuclear Safety Quotes

Atoms for Peace

You might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all (if they were not absolutely necessary).

Leave the atom alone.

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is that it would cost too much, involve too many resources and people. But think of the cost of having all the crops impounded by the government, all the milk being thrown into the river, people's livelihoods destroyed.

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

I don't know why people are always afraid of a nuclear blast.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

We must create a new culture to improve [nuclear] safety. After making sure that it is safe, we must restart nuclear energy.

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

Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!

What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons. The key is we’ve got to have a clear objective...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control.

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

The Three Mile Island Report to President Carter, if published in its entirety, would have destroyed the civilian nuclear power industry because the accident at Three Mile Island was infinitely more dangerous than was ever made public.