«This is a very disturbing and highly damaging statement,» one top
nuclear scientist told ScienceInsider.
Not exact matches
The organization's early years chronicled the dawn of the
nuclear age and the birth of the
scientists» movement, as
told by the men and women who built the atomic bomb and then lobbied with both technical and humanist arguments for its abolition,» states the organization's Web site.
Abagyan
told New
Scientist that Russia will let its 12 first - generation
nuclear plants run for their «design lives» of thirty years.
However, sources
tell ScienceInsider that several prominent
scientists and
nuclear policy heavyweights rejected the Administration's overtures, and that other candidates were thought to carry too much political baggage to be confirmed by the Senate.
The vast majority of
nuclear scientists never
told us that we were almost certainly going to put our civilization in peril if we kept going about our daily lives as usual, doing exactly what we were already doing, which is what the climate
scientists have been
telling us for years.
I will
tell you about another
scientist from an earlier time, Her name was Leona Woods Libby, she was the only woman that worked on the manhattan project, she was accomplished in developing the first
nuclear reactor; after the war she went into the science of climate change based on natural cycles.
The Greens are still fighting the
nuclear plants tooth and nail, even though many of their own
scientists tell them that they are the greenest energy of all.
«The earthquake doesn't
tell us whether we should do
nuclear, but the earthquake does
tell us that we're better off, if we're doing
nuclear, to have a good understanding of the world around us,» says Richard B. Alley, a Penn State climate
scientist and author of «Earth: The Operator's Manual.»