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)

alt"Germany now risks landing in a position with a very uneven energy policy. The decisive question now for Germany is that one most probably will need to increase the import of nuclear energy from France and that there is a risk they will not manage as quickly to halt the dependency on fossil fuels, especially coal-based energy," Andreas Carlgren, Swedish Environment Minister, on 30 May following the German decision to phase out nuclear by 2022