Nuclear Energy Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old nuclear energy quotes, nuclear energy sayings, and nuclear energy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Nuclear energy is incomparably greater than the molecular energy which we use today.... What is lacking is the match to set the bonfire alight. Winston Churchill
Sleeping next to a woman presents a greater radioactive risk than camping beside a nuclear power station. Pile Botha
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. James Buchan
The history of nuclear energy is filled with too many cases of human failure, and of human and environmental harm, to sustain such uncritical trust in expertise or faith in cornucopian progress. James W. Feldman
Nuclear energy and foreign policy cannot coexist on the planet. The more deep the secret, the greater the determination of every nation to discover and exploit it. Nuclear energy insists on global government, on law, on order, and on the willingness of the community to take the responsibility for the acts of the individual. E.B. White
Nuclear energy is at a crossroads. While some concerned about climate change urge a rapid expansion of nuclear power to facilitate a shift away from fossil fuels ... others argue for a decisive rejection of nuclear energy, especially in the wake of Fukushima and ongoing difficulties with the storage of long-lived nuclear waste (e.g. Yucca Mountain). Interestingly, much of the argument on both sides is overtly ethical, highlighting objections to the most vulnerable and to future generations. Stephen M. Gardiner
Briefly put, my claim is that nuclear energy is still in several, although not all, respects an experimental technology and, so I will argue, recognizing the experimental nature would improve the moral debate about the desirability of nuclear energy. It would, in particular, allow us to better take into account and deal with the uncertainties, and sometimes even ignorance, that surrounds at least some aspects of nuclear energy. Ibo van de Poel
A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. Dixie Lee Ray
Nuclear energy is by no means finished; it remains one of the great hopes of mankind, and in due course it will play a major role, perhaps the decisive role in providing the energy that the world needs so badly. But that goal will not be reached on the road that we are now traveling. We need to back away from our present nuclear state in order to find a better way, a route less hazardous to human health and to the peace of the world and its very survival. David Lilienthal
Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. Stephanie Mills
The brutal truth is that no one has yet managed to work out a way of getting nuclear reactors to burn uranium as effectively as they burn money. Tom Burke
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches. Albert Einstein