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Quotes

"I believe...that it is my duty to bring to your attention the following facts...it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reactions in large amounts of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated...The new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs and it is conceivable - though much less certain - that that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed."

Albert Einstien's letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 1939

"Atomic power can cure as well as kill. It acn fertilize and enrich a region as well as devestate it. It can widen man's horizons as well as force him back into the cave."

Nuclear Physicist Alvin Weinberg to a Congressional Committee, December 1949

"It was narrow when it started, and when it went up it expanded until it was half the width of the towers as it went out over the top."

Bill Whittock, resident of Goldsboro, Pennslyvania seeing a steam cloud emitting from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, March 1979

"Picture the biggest jet at an airport and the sound it makes. That's what I heard. It shook the windows, the whole house."

Holly Garnish, Golobsboro witness who heard the explosion at TMI.


Bibliography

DeAngelis, Therese. "Three Mile Island". Chelsea House Publishers. Philedalphia, PA. Copyright 2003 by Chelsea House Publishers.

Giarobello, John. "Nuclear Power of the Future: New Ways of Turning Atoms into Energy". The Rosen Publishers Group, New York, NY. Copyright 2003 by the Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.

Streissguth, Tom. "Nuclear Weapons: More Countries, More Threats". Enslow Publishers, Inc. Berkeley Heights, NJ. Copywright 2000 by Tom Streissguth.