We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.
We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too
It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.
The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.
I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.
It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it.
Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.
The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.
While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
