Quotes

alt"If you had asked me 20 years ago about nuclear power, I would have taken the traditional green view and said something like 'over my dead body'. To achieve decarbonisation of our power, nuclear has to be part of the answer." Lord Smith, chairman of the British Environment Agency on 7 May 2012 (source: Financial Times)

“It will be impossible to ensure energy security for sustainable development in the world and at the same time its environmental security in the next several decades without developing nuclear energy, (…) This means that the number of nuclear power plants under construction and the number of countries making decisions on the development of nuclear energy will continue growing every day” Sergei Kiriyenko, Head of ROSATOM, at the International Conference on Access to Civil Nuclear Energy in Paris on 8 March