These experiments might make it possible to produce power by means of nuclear energy and radioactive elements. Unfortunately also perhaps atomic bombs.
Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
I am a particle physicist, which is the nearest branch to nuclear physics. So in that sense I was the sort of right connection with the subject of nuclear energy and so on.
If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?
As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.
I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.
Uranium Committee of the National Bureau of Standards
See Albert Einstein.
The NSG entry is crucial for India's energy policy.
Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.
Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
...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.
More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
Terrorists do not actually need nuclear weapons. They have been conveniently supplied with 103 nuclear power plants scattered throughout the United States (438 of these deadly facilities exist throughout the world). A planned meltdown at one of these facilities would make the World Trade Center attacks seem like child's play. The massive concrete containers protecting the reactors are not strong enough to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet.
I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on another 25 years. But lately I am on board with Nicole Foss's argument that we will not have the capital or even the social cohesion to build anymore nuke plants.
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.
