There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.