Quotes About Uranium

I fear Iran continuing to be able to pursue uranium enrichment and to maintain several thousand centrifuges.

There were some old-time prospectors around, and if any of them recognized the carnotite—" "The what?" Innowitz said. "Carnotite—that's what uranium comes from. The Lucky Nugget is full of it. You know what that's worth today. If any of those miners spotted it and the story was in the papers

And a single ton of raw uranium provides the same electricity as twenty thousand tons of black coal.

It seemed like I was surrounded by great and wonderful people unstable as uranium.

police unearthed evidence that Aum were also developing a technique for enriching uranium, using laser beam equipment. Because Japan cannot eliminate the threat that this small but crazy group poses, this chapter has to question Japan's ability to deal with the much stronger one that North Korea, China

You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

Granite contains a number of naturally occurring substances, one of them being that much-loved radioactive element uranium. Because of this, New York's Grand Central Station gives off more radiation than is permitted at a nuclear power station. Don't worry if you go there though, the rules about building nuclear power stations are extremely strict, and you're not going to come to any harm even if you lived your entire life in the station.

This means that not only can fast reactors – deployed at scale – "solve" the nuclear waste "problem", but that they can also run entire countries for centuries on uranium which has already been mined and for which there is little other use.

Don't sell your land, don't sell Grandmother Earth to the strip-mining outfits and the uranium companies. Don't sell your water." That kind of advice is a threat to the system and gets you into the penitentiary.

The best intelligence the British received came through German activity at Vemork. As early as April 1940 Jacques Allier had alerted his British allies to Nazi efforts in uranium research using heavy water from the plant.

Diebner called another meeting of his "Uranium Club." This time Werner Heisenberg attended. Heisenberg was considered the leading light of German theoretical physics, particularly after Hitler's rise had forced Albert Einstein and other Jewish physicists to flee the country