Nuclear Reactor Quotes

#1. She'd never set a fantasy in a ski lodge, but she was thinking about it now. She couldn't help it. The man was throwing off pheromones like he was a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Sitting so close to ground zero, the fallout was lethal.

Rachel Gibson

#2. Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.

Bill Dedman

#3. Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.

Elliott Abrams

#4. You're young. Why are you doing this? That's not a person anymore, that's a nuclear reactor. You'll just burn together." I was like a dog, running after them. I'd stand for hours at their doors, begging and pleading. And then they'd say: "All right! The hell with you! You're not normal!

Svetlana Alexievich

#5. Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Dave Barry

#6. No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.

Robert Reich

#7. Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

Matt Groening

#8. Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Abdus Salam

#9. The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

Stephanie Mills

#10. I had control issues, enough emotional baggage to excite a team of psychiatrists, and - thanks to my demon half - a penchant for snap decisions driven by instinct. And that was when my demon was subdued. When she came to the party, I was as stable as a nuclear reactor on meltdown.

Pippa DaCosta

#11. Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.

Don Sherwood

#12. I made a nuclear reactor when I was 14

Taylor Wilson

#13. When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.

Steven Magee

#14. Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!

William McDonough

#15. People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Phil and Hannah had decided that Christian guilt was better than bad math

Rhoda Janzen

#17. If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

Aretha Franklin

#18. I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

Emeli Sande

#19. If you have anything to say, shut up!

Frank McCourt

#20. A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

Leslie Dewan

#21. After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked.

Susan Eisenhower

#22. Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

Barton Gellman

#23. The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

Ahmed Toufiq

#24. Truthfully, there's nothing mysterious about Public Relations. It's all about how your client - whether it's a company, an individual, a foundation, a music group - relates to the public. Central to this is their reputation.

Ed Zitron

#25. We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

Ariel Sharon

#26. When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.

Edgar Allan Poe

#27. MIND & GRIND
Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers

Kamil Ali

#28. Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

Taylor Wilson

#29. Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

David Cottrell

#30. Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

Nathan Myhrvold

#31. Though poets might prefer a more evocative comparison, astrophysicists liken the sun to a nuclear fusion reactor.

Eric W. Sanderson

#32. American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

Bill Dedman

#33. Thinking harder is more important than working harder.

Debasish Mridha