Top 1200 Nuclear Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation's economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

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

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.

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.

Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop nuclear weapons. I've made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations.

The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming.

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation.

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

We keep discussing nuclear power and other issues, but we should spare a thought to the basic needs of our women.

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.

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

Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won.

The Iranians know that if they develop nuclear weapons, they will be in tremendous jeopardy from military capabilities of their neighbors and of the United States. I am not predicting what will happen in 2013, but I do think it is a crucial year. I hope we can make it clear to the Iranians that we do not object to them having peaceful use of nuclear power. But when they enrich Uranium to a 20 percent level, people think they are going for the bomb. Their uranium enrichment program is a real danger.

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.

The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us.

The cavalier casual way that Donald Trump talks about nuclear weapons is not only frightening but it goes counter to more than 70 years of bipartisan, presidential leadership of Republicans and Democrats who believed that we have to prevent other countries from getting nuclear weapons and we have to do what we can to decrease the number of nuclear weapons in the world.

There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The countries that have nuclear weapons deploy them ready for use and have doctrines saying that they would use them in certain circumstances.

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.

For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who removed us from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty framework for nuclear disarmament, and then Barack Obama, who created a trillion-dollar budget for us to spend on a new generation of nuclear weapons and modes of delivery.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work.

Nuclear power can continue to help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but we must do everything we can to make it safer.

It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point.

Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms.

If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the bulk-power system, nuclear has to be part of the conversation.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.

Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.

I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

There are no oil rigs in the Durham region of Ontario and the only energy that our area is known for is the electricity generated from nuclear power.

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

The worst part of what we heard Donald [trump] say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power.

Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states.

We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an unthinkable prospect. Furthermore, Trump's pursuit of Obama's programs of modernization of the nuclear forces poses extraordinary dangers. As we have recently learned, the modernized U.S. nuclear force is seriously fraying the slender thread on which survival is suspended.

The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.

My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant.