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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. -- Ronald Reagan
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all. -- James Lovelock
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. -- Joe Barton
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Fred Upton
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. -- Mark Z. Jacobson
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. -- James Buchan
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. -- Albert Einstein
Russia and China also cooperate in mechanical engineering, high-speed railway transportation, lumber processing, nuclear energy production and so on. We have built the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant. Two units are already operational and are showing good results. -- Vladimir Putin
Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future. -- Tarja Halonen
But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons. -- Joseph Rotblat
Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water -- Albert Einstein
Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix. -- Michael C. Burgess
All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay. -- James Buchan
A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water. -- Leslie Dewan
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control. -- Hayao Miyazaki
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. -- Dixie Lee Ray
The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense. -- Sigmar Gabriel
A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power. -- Zac Goldsmith
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. -- Ban Ki-moon
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks. -- Naoto Kan
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. -- Jeff Goodell
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. -- Michael Burgess
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. -- Michael Burgess
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. -- James Lovelock
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. -- Timothy Noah
The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power. -- Rudy Giuliani
Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake. -- Bill Dedman
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. -- Ann Coulter
Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones. -- Will Hermes
If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix. -- Judy Biggert
One of the deadliest issues is the nuclear radiation pouring from every nuclear power station in the world. With every atomic process and experimentation that is going on, high-level nuclear radiation is pouring out at the highest level. -- Benjamin Creme
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant. -- William Scranton
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family. -- Donna Reed
When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest. -- Bob Latta
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous. -- David J. C. MacKay
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. -- Kim Dae Jung
The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. -- John Cheever
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. -- Leslie Dewan
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer. -- Bill McKibben
The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment. -- Michio Kaku
Underway on nuclear power. -- Eugene P. Wilkinson
I want a man with nuclear power. -- Carla Bruni
Only nuclear power can now halt global warming. -- James Lovelock
Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power. -- John Burroughs
I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power. -- Manmohan Singh
Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s. -- Jerry Brown
Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States. -- Michael C. Burgess
Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States. -- Michael C. Burgess
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. -- Joe Biden
Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing. -- Abdus Salam
We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy. -- George W. Bush
The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power. -- Naoto Kan
I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now. -- Al Gore
The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.' -- Naoto Kan
Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more. -- Lars Leijonborg
I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms. -- Abdus Salam
There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station. -- Peter Hain
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry. -- Michael C. Burgess
I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me. -- Donald Trump
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained. -- Joschka Fischer
She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power. -- Jill Stein
The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power. -- Anthony Mason
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult. -- Naoto Kan
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry. -- Michael C. Burgess
The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts. -- David J. C. MacKay
For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important. -- James Dyson
It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power. -- Naoto Kan
We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone. -- Sergei Lavrov
American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. -- Neil Kinnock
We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources. -- Vladimir Putin
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. -- Wendell Berry
More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima. -- Bill Dedman
Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use. -- Philippe Kahn
Impulsiveness is not a trait one would choose for a person with the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal. -- Donald Trump
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. -- Adrienne Rich
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion. -- Reza Aslan
We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. -- George Monbiot
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford. -- Arthur Goldberg
Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today. -- Hermann Scheer
By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. -- Stephen Hawking
...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil. -- Jerry Pournelle
I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't. -- Peter Dinklage
Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power. -- Kesha Rogers
One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family. -- Lee Myung-bak
Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States. -- Joe Lieberman
It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous. -- Pierre Schaeffer
Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power. -- Abdus Salam
America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked? -- John Niven
When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress. -- Ralph Nader
India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries. -- Bobby Jindal
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality. -- Linus Pauling
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. -- Bill Vaughan
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. -- Bill Vaughan
If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim. -- Lee Myung-bak
Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides. -- Jamie Raser
I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power was a logical way to do something to help the environment. -- Leslie Dewan
Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders. -- Ralph Nader
I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. -- Yoshihiko Noda
Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book?' -- David Letterman
Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country. -- Ernest Moniz
Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened? -- Eve Ensler
The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation. -- Jimmy Carter
General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries. -- Bernie Sanders
I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky. -- Taylor Wilson
Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so. -- Amory Lovins
People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it. -- Abdus Salam
Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be. -- Andre Geim
Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil. -- Lester R. Brown
Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. -- Stewart Brand
So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant. -- Elon Musk

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