Uranium Quotes

• Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

  Yukiya Amano

  Light, Korea, Water

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• Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.

  Jan Brewer

  Beautiful, Writing, Government

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• Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

  Jay Weatherill

  Government, India, Framework

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• One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

  James Lovelock

  Oil, Coal, Pounds

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• Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

  Jan Brewer

  Beautiful, Uranium Mining, Arizona

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 22, 2012.

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• In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

  Jim Gerlach

  Iran, Iraq, United States

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• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  Hans Blix

  Fake People, Iraq, Long

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• Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Strong, Support, Needs

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• There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

  Bob Brown

  Technology, Australia, Environmental

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

  Tom Udall

  Government, Uranium Mining, Trying

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• Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!

  Imelda Marcos

  People, Nuclear, Use

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• The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Government, Iraq

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood.' - HAROLD PINTER A $19 trillion price tag since 1940 for past, present, and future wars reveals our addiction to war and bloodshed.

  Philip Berrigan

  Baby, War, Eye

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• Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of the integrated circuit chip, laser and fiber optic technologies, Particle beams, Electromagnetic propulsion systems, Depleted uranium projectiles, Stealth capabilities, and many others! How do I know? I was in charge! A matter of public record I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it.

  Philip J. Corso

  Wise, Kids, Thinking

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• O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.

  Lise Meitner

  Xenon, Science, Simple

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• We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon. And there's no doubt about the fact that the level of effort has escalated in recent months.

  Dick Cheney

  Effort, Doubt, Levels

  "Dick Cheney, Benghazi, and White House Lies" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. May 15, 2013.

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• There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Years

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 13, 2005.

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• I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Lying, Winning, Night

  "Obama's nuclear strutting and fretting" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Dr. A.Q. Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade, ... He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system

  Pervez Musharraf

  Doe, Drs, Bombs

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• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Smart, Widows And Orphans

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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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• Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

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• We're sitting in the dark willing to sell our souls for another peppermint with enough uranium to give a terrorist a wet dream. - Diana

  Michael Grant

  Dream, Dark, Giving

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• We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of the elements of matter. With radium and with uranium we do not see anything but the decay. And yet, somewhere, somehow, it is almost certain that these elements must be continuously forming. They are probably being put together now in the laboratory of the stars. ... Can we ever learn to control the process. Why not? Only research can tell.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Stars, Science, Growth

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• [Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another more appropriate name. I have chosen that of Uranium, as a kind of memorial, that the chemical discovery of this new metal happened in the period of astronomical discovery of the new planet Uranus.

  Martin Heinrich Klaproth

  Science, Discovery, Names

  "Analytical Essays towards Promoting the Chemical Knowledge of Mineral Substances" by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, London: Cadell & Davies, 1801.

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