Tarja Halonen Quotes

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.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?

She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.

We need nuclear energy now, and we will need it in the future.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

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

In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

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.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.

GOP seems to stand for Gas, Oil, and Plutonium.

I want to work hard toward my goal that there will be zero nuclear power generation.

For years, I have been a strong supporter of clean, safe nuclear energy as an important part of our energy mix.

I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.

I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.