Nuclear is Our Future Pro-nuclear activist group

Manager: “Why don’t you use fission? There’s more engineering experience in fission.”
Me: “We know fusion. There’s enough experience to do this.”
Manager: “I suppose. It’s so sad what happened to nuclear power. It seemed to be such a good technology.”
Me: “But it’s so dirty.”

-Exchange during a preliminary meeting on a nuclear rocket concept that we’re working on, 1999.

You can’t even imagine me saying that, can you? That last response bothered me, and taking the time to research energy policy made me angry enough to start writing.

Filed under Alternatives, Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Environment

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Stewart Peterson |