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We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors. -- Wilson Greatbatch
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! -- David R. Brower
After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables. -- Shi Zhengrong
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
France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently. -- Wilson Greatbatch
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors. -- Nicolas Roeg
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Bill Dedman
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
Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun. -- Wilson Greatbatch
Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong. -- Ricky Jay
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. -- David R. Brower
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems. -- Joe Barton
Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel. -- Barton Gellman
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core. -- Barton Gellman
Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the moon - the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials. -- Seth Shostak
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. -- Danny Danon
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. -- Jill Tarter
Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more. -- Hyman Rickover
If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. -- Ralph Nader
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature. -- George Cowan
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
We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest. -- Frederick Buechner

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