Nuclear Regulation Quotes

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good.

The biggest risks posed by nuclear power come not from the technology but from the human institutions that govern how we use it.

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.

I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix.

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

In the Navy, I slept mere feet from a nuclear reactor, so I have no knee-jerk opposition to traditional reactors.

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'

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

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

Nobody wants nuclear waste in their back yards. In a democracy where everyone has a say, most people say NO!.

The lesson of Chernobyl is not an indictment of nuclear power as such. Nuclear power, designed well, regulated properly, cared for meticulously, has a place in the world’s energy supply.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

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.

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.

It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.

I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'

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

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.