Pandora's Promise Quotes

Himself - Environmental Activist: I'm wearing radiation clothing, it shouldn't be necessary.

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Himself - Environmental Activist: [standing in a Fukushima parking lot]Am I still pro-nuclear?
Himself - Environmental Activist: Ask me in a few days when I've had a chance to get my head around it, alright?

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Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: If something looks like it's bad, we're holding up our hand and say No, please - we can't have that.

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Himself - Pioneering Nuclear Engineer: One pound of uranium, which is the size of my fingertip, if you could release all of the energy has the equivalent of about 5,000 barrels of oil.
Himself - Pioneering Nuclear Engineer: That to me is amazing.

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Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: I remember these big scare ads in the papers, getting people to organize rallies against Shoreham.
Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: There were many things I didn't know at that time that I've learned since.
Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: For one thing, it turns out the ads were placed by the Oil Delivery Industry.
Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: You know, the companies that deliver fuel to people in Long Island.
Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: And sure the oil companies can say Go solar!, because they know it's never going to replace oil heat.
Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: You cannot turn on the sun in the winter and hope to warm up your house - good luck!

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Himself - Environmental Activist: Part of the problem is intermittency, and that hasn't been solved.

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Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute: When we look at nuclear we have to understand that we're making a long term investment.
Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute: Now it's a big upfront capital cost, but these are plants that are going to last 60, 80, maybe even 100 years.

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Himself - Environmental Activist: [speaking in 2010]The plants that we're building, the wind plants and the solar plants, are gas plants.

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Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute: We're basically gonna double the amount of energy we consume by 2050, we're gonna triple it or quadruple it by the end of the century.
Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute: And meanwhile, if you want to stabilize emissions at some reasonable level, almost all of that energy has to be clean energy.
Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute: You've got to not only create a clean energy infrastructure to replace the fossil-fuel infrastructure we have, but we have to create another one or maybe two of them between now and 2050 or 2100 in order to reduce our emissions to stabilize the climate.
Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute: And that is just nothing that anybody has been talking about or dealing with in the last 20 years.

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Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: World wide three million people die a year from air pollution from fossil-fueled plants.

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Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute: Making solar panels is an incredibly toxic process.

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Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: There hasn't been a single death from the operation of commercial nuclear reactors in the United States.
Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: Not one death.

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Himself - Environmental Activist: It's true to say that we're all bathed in natural radioactivity.

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Himself - Founder & Publisher, Whole Earth Catalog: Wow! We can take this waste from the nuclear plant and recycle it into fuel - either by reprocessing or by having a new kind of reactor that uses used fuel.
Himself - Founder & Publisher, Whole Earth Catalog: That looks very much like a renewable resource.

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Himself - Author, The Making of the Atomic Bomb: The damage that was caused to people by the fallout from that worst of all nuclear power accidents has been remarkably limited.

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Herself - Author, Power to Save the World: In fact, all the all the spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear plants in the United States could fit in a single football field, if you stack the fuel rods to a hight of about 3 meters. That's it.

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UK PM Margaret Thatcher: [addressing the UN in 1989]We are seeing a vast increase in the amount of carbon dioxide reaching the atmosphere. It is mankind and his activities which is changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways.

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