Book of Science and Nature Quotations by Isaac Asimov

Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781555844448
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Published: 2006-10-03T03:52:48+00:00

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I S A A C A S I M O V ‘ S Book ef Science and Nature Quotations

47.10 The point is that over and over again, the government and the industry have either lied to or misled the press and the public about nuclear energy. And the press and the public don’t trust the industry. They don’t trust the government. Whether that trust can be rebuilt is a very, very, tough question for our society.

David Burnham, American Environmentalist (1980)

47.11 I don’t think the utility was covering up any information, but it just was difficult to piece together because there was so much information-so much information that it was very difficult to put it together into a comprehensive and logical story, not only to describe what had happened and the extent of the accident but to tell what might happen in the future.

Richard Vollmer, American Government Official (1980) 47.12 The most fundamental lesson of TMI, one that must be continually emphasized, is that accidents can happen.

Congressional Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production (1980)

47 .13 The major recommendations of the report sidestep the issue of nuclear safety and stress the importance of addressing “the lack of understanding of nuclear power by the public. ” … In other words, according to the report, it is an uninformed public, rather than the accident at Three Mile Island, that is to be blamed for the present widespread concern about the competence of the nuclear industry and the adequacy of nuclear safety regulation.

Moreover, we would argue that the effort that has been made in this document to minimize the very serious safety problems that are implicit in nuclear power generation, and were dramatically highlighted by the accident at Three Mile Island, does little to restore the credibility of the nuclear option, or inspire public confidence in the objectivity of Congressional oversight.

Howard Wolpe and Richard Ottinger, American Congressmen (1980) 47.14 Human civilization is but a few thousand years long. Imagine having the audacity to think that we can devise a program to store lethal radioactive materials for a period of time that is longer than all of human culture to date.

Jeremy Rifkin, American Writer/Environmental Activist (1980) 47.15 We have found in our present study nothing inherent in reactors or in safeguard systems as they now have been developed which guarantees either that major reactor accidents will not occur or accidents occur and the protective systems will not fail. Should such accidents occur and the protective systems fail, very large damages could result.

Government Study for Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island (1982)

47.16 No existing [nuclear power] plant uses foolproof technology, and the consequences of a meltdown, no matter how remote the probability of its occurrence, are so serious that any benefits of nuclear power can never outweigh the risks. Gerry Waneck, American Environmental Activist (1986)

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