Uranium Quotes - Page 2

• The nuclear industry is currently undergoing a rebirth. The uranium market will remain tight for at least the next three years.

  Paul Gray

  Years, Three, Nuclear

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• The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.

  Ali Larijani

  Iran, Problem, Proposal

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• What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.

  Tony Hoagland

  Spirit, Poetic, Metaphor

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• There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.

  Bertrand Russell

  Animal, Race, Hydrogen Bomb

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• Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Technology, Iran, Nuclear

  "Diplomatic License", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2004.

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• It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Iraq, Would Be, Weapons

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• Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

  Garik Israelian

  Energy, Connections, Decay

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• Here's the way I look at it. President Bush has uranium-tipped bunker busters and I have puns. I think he'll be OK.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, President, Looks

  "Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: America's Anchors". Interview with Maureen Dowd, www.rollingstone.com. November 16, 2006.

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• Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.

  Eve Curie

  Mother, Science, Substance

  Ève Curie (1937). “Madame Curie: a biography”

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• My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?

  Peter Greenaway

  Christian, Rocks, Names

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• Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

  Peter Garrett

  Country, Uranium Mining, Environment

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• As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Mean, Animal

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.

  Immortal Technique

  Dark, Moon, Age

  Song: The Point Of No Return

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• Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

  Winona LaDuke

  Fighting, Australia, Land

  "Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use of 'Geronimo' as Code for Osama bin Laden: 'The Continuation of the Wars Against Indigenous People'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. May 6, 2011.

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• We will immediately lift the suspension of uranium enrichment and will halt implementation of the Additional Protocol.

  Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

  Halt, Protocol, Enrichment

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• It was announced today that Iran has reached a deal with the U.S. to limit its nuclear program and send most of its uranium to Russia. Then Americans said, 'That's great! Wait, WHAT?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Russia, Iran, Waiting

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• Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Cancer, Birth Defects

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• It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mean, Too Short, Mass

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.101, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Energy, Doe

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• The Iranians know that if they develop nuclear weapons, they will be in tremendous jeopardy from military capabilities of their neighbors and of the United States. I am not predicting what will happen in 2013, but I do think it is a crucial year. I hope we can make it clear to the Iranians that we do not object to them having peaceful use of nuclear power. But when they enrich Uranium to a 20 percent level, people think they are going for the bomb. Their uranium enrichment program is a real danger.

  Sam Nunn

  Military, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

  David Talbot

  Discovery, Stories, Exciting

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• EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

  David Talbot

  Rising, Incredibles, Projects

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• Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.

  Abdul Kalam

  Country, Self, India

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• Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

  Petra Kelly

  Mother, Taken, Raw Materials

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• If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.

  Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

  Country, America, Able

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