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

    Funny   Years   Office  
    "Burlington Free Press" (Vermont), February 15, 1980.
  • What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

    Stupid   Oil   Way  
    "Rush: 'I’m Just Noting the Timing Here'" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.
  • 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.

  • Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007 - and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.

    Cells   Wind   Coal  
    "Missing the Market Meltdown". www.newsweek.com. May 17, 2008.
  • The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

    Country   India   Nuclear  
  • Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.

    Lying   Needs   Nuclear  
  • A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

    Science   Power   Years  
    "The Seattle Times" Newspaper, January 3, 1994.
  • The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

    War   Years   Earthquakes  
    "Japan's Worst Crisis Since WWII". bigthink.com.
  • The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

  • What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

    Writing   Nuclear   Roles  
    "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.
  • 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.

    Hero   Islands   Would Be  
    Thomas Frank (2012). “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right”, p.11, Macmillan
  • It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.

    "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.
  • These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.

  • ...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control.

    Real   People   Community  
  • If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

    Oil   Fuel   Fossils  
  • When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

  • 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.

    Judging   Safety   Risk  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.

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