Quotes About Plutonium

#1. I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

Doc Brown

#2. Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

David Quammen

#3. The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like plutonium waste which we would like to forget, these bodies had become poisonous.

Susan Griffin

#4. Though I said art sure no craven vastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore, tell me why thy lordly name is on the nigts plutonium shore, quoth the raven never more

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

David R. Brower

#6. Do you supplicate plutonium? Do you sing hymns to uranium? We bask in the corona of an insensate majesty. In its sway we seek to lay the foundation blocks of a new city, a new civilization. We're pioneers. Our frontier is the grand wasteland between Alpha and Omega.

Laird Barron

#7. Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.

John Gofman

#8. Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

Pauline Kael

#9. The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that there is plutonium in their drinking water.

Bill Bryson

#10. Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

Jinzaburo Takagi

#11. My recent activities have been concentrated on criticism on and actions against Japan's and worldwide plutonium programs, since it is, as I believe, one of the greatest threats to the world ...

Jinzaburo Takagi

#12. The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it.

Bill Gates

#13. Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.

Barton Gellman

#14. It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#15. The Mars rover Curiosity, for example, is powered by the heat from a chunk of plutonium it carries in a container on the end of a stick.

Randall Munroe

#16. What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

Johnny Carson

#17. The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#18. Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality ... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

Walter Matthau

#19. Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

Jimmy Fallon

#20. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Albert Einstein

#21. Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

Barack Obama

#22. There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

David R. Brower

#23. Plutonium is the darling and the demon of the nuclear age.

Kristen Iversen

#24. You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!

Angel Ramon Medina

#25. Fermi thought plutonium production needed an area a mile wide and two miles long for safety. Compton proposed building piles of increasing power to work up to full-scale production and was considering alternative sites in the Lake Michigan Dunes area and in the Tennessee Valley.

Richard Rhodes

#26. Say what you like. Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

Terry Pratchett

#27. My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.

Mordechai Vanunu

#28. My family never talks about feelings, and we certainly never talk about plutonium. It's hard to take something seriously if you can't see it, smell it, touch it, or feel it. Plutonium is a cosmic trick. The invisible enemy, the merry prankster. Can it hurt you or not? None of us know.

Kristen Iversen

#29. Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,

Kate Bush

#30. Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

Ian Hacking

#31. We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb,

Mohamed ElBaradei