Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator. I am not going to respond at great length because I want to eventually find us in agreement about this, but I appreciate it. Your points are very important and very good points. On safety and nuclear power, I think it is always important to start off by pointing out that a nuclear reactor is a big, complex operation and obviously there is some risk to it. But nuclear power has the best safety record of any form of energy production in the United States. There has never been a death in connection with any 1 of our 104 civilian reactors. There hasn't been one with the more than 100 Navy reactors where we have sailors actually living on top of reactors. We have all heard about Three Mile Island, which is the most important nuclear accident we have had in the United States, but no one was even hurt in Three Mile Island. I see the Senator from Pennsylvania is presiding today. When I say that to people around the country, they say: What do you mean no one was hurt at Three Mile Island? No one was hurt. There have been tests on families who lived around there, and no one was even hurt either from any kind of explosion or from radioactivity at a later time. So we always have to look for better ways to be safe, but we have that safe record. We do have the Chairman of the NRC saying this used fuel is stored safely for 100 years, and we have our scientists telling us in 10 or 15 years we can find a way to recycle.…”