“In the coming decades, we will have to convert to solar power and safe nuclear power, both of which offer essentially unbounded energy supplies.”

—Jeffrey Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Scientific American column
September 2008

“The recycling of nuclear fuel would make nuclear power even more valuable by reducing the amount of nuclear wastes generated. Unfortunately, concerns about nuclear waste and nuclear proliferation have slowed the development of nuclear power in the United States, resulting in a ‘once through’ fuel cycle (i.e., no recycling) in the United States. Other countries such as France have successfully deployed nuclear power with fuel recycling, while successfully addressing waste and proliferation concerns. France generates approximately 80 percent of its electricity by nuclear power and, as a result, has the cleanest air in Western Europe.”

—H.L. Dodds, Ph.D.
IBM Professor of Engineering and
Head, Nuclear Engineering Department
University of Tennessee–Knoxville
“The Time Has Come for Nuclear Power With Recyclying”
The Tennessean (Nashville, Tenn.)
June 30, 2008

“There is an existing set of carbon-efficient technologies that are only partly diffused throughout the global economy. … Harnessing the potential of existing low-carbon technologies is crucial: Only by making the decision early to invest will countries be able to benefit from the next generation of nuclear energy.”

—Nicholas Stern
Economist and I.G. Patel chair, London School of Economics and Political Science
“Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change”
April 30, 2008


“Conservation and energy efficiency are very important to the state, but they are not a sufficient solution. There will be substantial growth in nuclear power use in the world in the coming decades, a non-polluting form of power spurring economic development. The only question is whether Wisconsin will take advantage of that resource.”

—Michael Corradini
Engineering Physics Chair
and Nuclear Engineering Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Oct. 29, 2007

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