Nuclear Waste Quotes

• The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

  James Cromwell

  Impact, Environmental Health, Issues

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• Es una preocupación nacional, me refiero a cómo eliminamos los residuos nucleares de forma segura, cómo nos ocupamos de esta increíble cantidad de residuos nucleares que hemos creado a lo largo de los años.

  Tom Udall

  Mean, Years, Nuclear

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• Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

  Gina Barreca

  Needs, Nuclear, Way

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• Todos los residuos de una central nuclear en un año pueden almacenarse bajo un escritorio.

  Ronald Reagan

  Divertido, Años, Oficina

  "Burlington Free Press" (Vermont), 15 de febrero de 1980.

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• Sé que la nuclear es mejor que los combustibles fósiles en lo que respecta al dióxido de carbono, pero la energía nuclear no es en absoluto limpia. No sabemos qué hacer con los residuos que ya tenemos y me parece una mala idea fabricar más cuando tenemos tantas opciones más limpias como la eólica y la solar.

  Sheryl Crow

  Media, Viento, Ideas

  "Aprender la verdad sobre el carbón y la energía nuclear", por Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. 18 de abril de 2007.

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• You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

  Anthony Albanese

  Guarantees That, Uranium Mining, Nuclear

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• Quemando residuos nucleares como combustible, creemos que podemos abastecer de energía limpia a Estados Unidos durante cientos de años sin tocar nunca nuevos recursos.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Believe, Years, Touching

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• Durante 50 años, las centrales nucleares han producido tres productos que sólo un lunático podría desear: plutonio explosivo para bombas, residuos radiactivos letales y electricidad tan cara que tiene que ser fuertemente subvencionada. Dejan a las generaciones futuras la tarea, y la mayor parte del coste, de hacer seguros unos emplazamientos que han sido contaminados a mitad de camino hacia la eternidad.

  James Buchan

  Años, Tareas, Tres

  "Un completo despilfarro de energía". www.theguardian.com. 12 de septiembre de 2002.

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• I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.

  Simon Singh

  Science, Thinking, Nuclear

  Simon Singh (2004). “Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and why You Need to Know about it”

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• Podría dibujar Bloom County con la nariz y pagar a la señora de la limpieza para que lo escribiera, y apostaría a que no perdería ni el 10% de mis papeles en los próximos veinte años. Tal es la naturaleza de las tiras cómicas. Una vez establecidas, su vida media suele ser superior a la de los residuos nucleares.

  Berkeley respiró

  Escritura, Años, Papel

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• Durante miles de años, los seres humanos han fastidiado, ensuciado y cagado este planeta, y ahora la historia espera que yo limpie lo que ensucian todos. Tengo que lavar y aplanar mis latas de sopa. Y dar cuenta de cada gota de aceite de motor usado. Y tengo que pagar la factura de los residuos nucleares y los tanques de gasolina enterrados y los lodos tóxicos vertidos en vertederos una generación antes de que yo naciera.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Motor Oil, Years, Feet

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.124, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into
  the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Country, Ocean, Nuclear

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• Nuestro reactor quema residuos nucleares como combustible. Así que no sólo es seguro y potente, sino que resuelve un problema importante: Reduce los residuos nucleares en lugar de crearlos. Es el reactor de sus sueños.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Dream, Powerful, Creating

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• All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed. So if you are romantic, you can say we are literally stardust. If you are less romantic, you can say we're the nuclear waste from fuel that makes stars shine.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Shining, Atoms

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• All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean -- or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.

  Arthur B. Robinson

  Ocean, America, Needs

  "Republican Suggested "Sprinkling" Radioactive Waste on America". Article by Bruce Wilson, www.dailykos.com. Septmber 19, 2012.

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• What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Light, Long

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.3, Canongate Books

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• There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.

  Erik Paulsen

  Moving, Keys, America

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• I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.

  Lisa Lutz

  Two, People, Annoyed

  Lisa Lutz (2008). “Curse of the Spellmans: Document #2”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.

  K'naan

  Order, Pirate, Nuclear

  "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kircher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Subvencionamos la eliminación de residuos en todas sus formas, desde los vertederos a la limpieza del Superfondo, la inyección en pozos profundos o el almacenamiento de residuos nucleares. De paso, fomentamos una economía en la que el 80% de lo que consumimos se tira después de un solo uso.

  Paul Hawken

  Nuclear, Uso, Residuos

  "Capitalismo natural". www.motherjones.com. Marzo/abril de 1997.

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• As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

  Sylvia Earle

  Attitude, Children, Ocean

  "Earth Has a Heart — It’s Blue" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Land, Squinting

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