49 Plutonium Quotes

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I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by. — Sayings

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. — Albert Einstein

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

The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. — Annie Jacobsen

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself. — Philip Berrigan

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. — Diane Ackerman

The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind. — Leslie Groves

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. — Stephen Hawking

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea. — Jon Stewart

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. — Ronald Reagan

Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model. — Jimmy Fallon

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. — Oscar Arias

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom — Robert Andrews Millikan

Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons — Iccho Itoh

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. - Pablo Picasso

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. — Pablo Picasso

Short Plutonium Quotes

  • It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. — Albert Einstein
  • What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous? — Johnny Carson
  • Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them. — Ian Hacking
  • My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb. — Mordechai Vanunu
  • Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program. — Jinzaburo Takagi
  • We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb. — Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb. — Barack Obama
  • Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung. — Kate Bush

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More Plutonium Quotes

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that. — Walter Matthau

Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country. — Glenn T. Seaborg

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium. — David Quammen

The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it. — Bill Gates

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. — David R. Brower

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. — David R. Brower

Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year. — John Gofman

Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that. — Bill Gates

Almost all of the governments have agreed that they will not acquire nuclear weapons and that they will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor their commercial and research nuclear power operations to ensure that nuclear materials - highly enriched uranium and plutonium - are not diverted to use in weapons. — John Burroughs

There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does a piece of candy cost - like, a penny and a half? An apple's like 15 cents? Anybody here bought a Mach 3 replacement cartridge recently? They're so expensive, they don't even keep them on the shelf. You know, you have to ask the people behind the counter. I feel like I'm trying to buy enriched plutonium or something. — Arj Barker

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth. — Pauline Kael

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

I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use. — Mark Oliphant

My recent activities have been concentrated on criticism on and actions against Japan's and worldwide plutonium programs, since it is, as I believe, one of the greatest threats to the world. — Jinzaburo Takagi

I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of human life, and democratically: where is the free-wheeling debate on this question? Only one force can stop this mission: the will of the American people. They have not been asked. Do they want to endanger their loved ones, their industry with this launch? One force is more powerful than plutonium, the spirit of the American people united. — Michio Kaku

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