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I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  People , New , Beautiful , Power


At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  You , Time , Know , Problem


There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  Where , Place , Garbage , Environmental


We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  Sea , Open , Tried , Waste


We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  Rock , Through , Spread , Waste


Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  You , Space , Earth , Sun


Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  You , Remember , Ocean , Moon


Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  Next , Think , Garbage , Solution


Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  Energy , Generation , Worth , Luxury


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.

Author: David R. Brower - American Environmentalist
  Just , Own , Worst , Side


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