“It was basically the radioactive equivalent of what's in a smoke detector.”
David McIntyre
“Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.”
Wes Smith
“This high level waste is still very radioactive, but there is no fissile material and when it has been vitrified it is unusable for anything.”
Graham Fairhall
“Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.”
Graham Allison
“We urge state officials to independently monitor to protect the public and firefighters from the hazards of airborne radioactive contaminated particles.”
Gerald Pollet
“Transporting high-level radioactive waste to Utah is as dangerous as it would be transporting it to Nevada, ... Thousands of tons of deadly nuclear material will pass homes, schools, businesses and churches in communities all across the country, and there is simply no way to safely do this.”
Harry Reid
“A non-radioactive system such as our system could prove more efficient and less toxic than the current state of the art therapies, and much less toxic than traditional drugs, which can lead to many chemotherapy-associated complications.”
Omid Farokhzad