Uranium Quotations

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

We believe that there is room within the IAEA to resolve this. Iran should give up uranium enrichment, but others should remain calm and patient.

We still want to reach a formula to prove that we will not divert uranium enriched on Iranian soil. We are prepared to hold talks with anyone who has something to say.

The fact is, I was not sent out to question what British intelligence might have, I was sent out to question the allegation that Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase several hundred tons of uranium oxide from Niger.

Secretary of State Rice made clear in her remarks that the U.S. favors a referral of Iran to the Security Council for sanctions if negotiations fail, ... because the Bush Administration suspects that Irans uranium enrichment program is a nuclear weapons program, but the resistance from Russia and China to vote for sanctions, may undermine a U.S. referral.

I would definitely see us selling uranium to China before we'd count on selling it to India.

Given current developments, China hopes Iran will restore suspension of all activities relating to uranium enrichment and create the conditions for appropriately resolving the Iran nuclear issue through peaceful negotiations.

If a state has the ability to do that (enrich uranium or plutonium), that means that it is only a few months from producing nuclear weapons.

If it is shown that depleted uranium causes an increase in cancers, then we have got to look at alternative weapon systems and at precautions which could be taken to protect our troops, as well as at how we can clean up the areas where the shells were used.

We can enrich uranium anywhere in Iran, with a vast country.

I would welcome more flexibility from Tehran in connection with the well-known Russian proposal on joint uranium enrichment, and not place bets on the demonstration of some new types of weapons.

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.

I think the uranium enrichment program is the 800-pound gorilla in the negotiating room. You can't solve a problem if you deny that it exists or if you wish it away.

I saw a clear majority here this morning indicating support for the direction we're taking the party, but the debate will always signal that when we are dealing with things related to uranium or nuclear that there are concerns ? environmental and otherwise ?

People are looking at everything from coal to uranium to oil and natural gas. When you include wind and ethanol, things look even better.

Referring Iran's file to the Security Council won't change the Iranian stance about uranium enrichment. It serves no one's interest.

Our nuclear fission reactors operate like a slow A bomb, splitting heavy plutonium or uranium atoms into smaller elements and giving off power.

It is extremely regrettable that Iran restarted uranium enrichment activities despite calls (not to do so) from the international community, including Japan.

We hope that this Russian invitation to Iran to hold talks on the 16th about participating in an international uranium enrichment center will help break, or encourage a break, in the current stalemate over the Iranian nuclear issue.

We hope Iran can restore its moratorium on all activities related to uranium enrichment and create the conditions for the solution of the nuclear issue through negotiations.

We estimate, if everything goes right, if they throw all their effort into solving their problems, they might be able to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a single nuclear weapon within five years.

We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.

You know very well ... we can enrich uranium anywhere in the country, with a vast country of more than 1 million 600 square kilometers.

We are not trained to really make any medical diagnoses. All we can say is there are high levels of some contaminants there, particularly uranium and arsenic, and there probably is -- or may be -- a dust problem.

We have not been able to reach agreement. A precondition to constructive confidence, which is necessary now, is stopping all uranium enrichment activities.

Those impurities do muck up your centrifuges. It's not a problem if you want 3.5 percent enriched uranium for power plants, but if you go to 90 percent these impurities are a major problem.

The demand for uranium is very strong, and countries are trying to diversify away from oil and coal which contributes to global warming. It appears Australia is happy to sell it to China, or anyone else, so long as they abide by specific guidelines.

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

We are working with the Europeans, working with the other members of the board of governors to fashion a response that fully reflects the concerns of the international community, sends a strong message about the importance of reestablishing suspension on uranium conversion and on fully cooperating with the IAEA, and has the best chance of producing that result.

We've certainly seen an increase in interest in uranium in the Yukon in the last year,

We must change our uranium policy ... so that we can have a full cycle of processing and production of nuclear fuel.

We will immediately lift the suspension of uranium enrichment and will halt implementation of the Additional Protocol,

The government supports the resumption of work at the uranium conversion facilities and we will continue,

We're there to help the indigenous people. We're not involved with any government agencies, not involved with the CIA, not involved with uranium mining. Our purpose there is to help the people.

Yes, we have injected uranium hexafluoride gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than is needed for a pilot project.

Uranium enrichment is decided by our country's top leaders and is the nation's legitimate right.

The order to resume uranium enrichment has been issued. The Iranian Atomic Energy Organization has restarted the process.

The order to resume uranium enrichment has been issued and, in accordance with that, the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization has restarted the process.

We cannot just forever drop the idea of uranium enrichment at home, especially when we have both the uranium and the technical know-how inside the country.

We think it is. After years of industry consolidation and tight financial conditions, uranium exploration has suffered and there will be a time lag, perhaps as long as five to seven years, before the supply side can fully respond. Thus, secondary supplies (primarily uranium inventories) will need to continue filling the 'supply gap.' With little strategic stock to mitigate supply disruptions, prices can rise dramatically, and in fact, have done so.

We should expand the work of these machines to achieve a full industrial line. We need dozens of these (centrifuge) units to achieve a uranium enrichment facility.

At this historic moment, with the blessings of God Almighty and the efforts made by our scientists, I declare here that the laboratory-scale nuclear fuel cycle has been completed and young scientists produced enriched uranium needed to the degree for nuclear power plants Sunday.

And what we've seen recently that has raised our level of concern to the current state of unrest ... is that he now is trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium -- specifically, aluminum tubes,

Europeans believe that we should not continue nuclear research activities and we believe we should. Research activities are not part of industrial uranium enrichment and all the countries have the right to do so for the sake of science development. Our activities are under the supervision of the Agency's inspectors and their cameras, so there is nothing to worry about.

There's got to be a crunch point over Iran. At the end of the day Iran is intent on uranium enrichment and the West won't allow it.

The United States and Europe have clearly moved away from uranium conversion to set enrichment as the new red line but it's not clear if Russia, the key diplomatic player at this point, buys this.

The Russian proposal to enrich uranium outside Iran is still on the table and needs to be explored fully.

The Russian embassy in Tehran gave to the Iranian side an official note saying that the previous Russian proposal of the creation of a joint Russian-Iranian company to enrich uranium remains in force.

Russia's proposal to enrich uranium on its territory remains on the negotiating table.

Russia's proposal is to set up a joint Iranian-Russian company to enrich uranium in Russian territory.

any investment in our province around uranium is subject to all of our own environmental and occupational health and safety regulations and law.

Australia is already fully committed in terms of uranium production through until about 2008, bearing in mind that the signing of this agreement means that this is really only the start of the process.

You're going to need uranium for these plants, ... I'm bullish. I think the long-term price of uranium is going to go up.

The remarks of visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard on supply of uranium to India conveys that New Delhi still has to cover a long distance before it is able to reap the harvest from landmark civilian nuclear deal with Washington.

According to the presidential order (last week), and to the law passed by the parliament (last year), the order of resumption of uranium enrichment was issued.

It's not rational to tell Iran not to enrich uranium - it's our right.

The big problem with uranium is that there's a scarcity of supply.

No matter how strong and how valid the assurances that China or any other country gives us, once we export uranium it's outside of our control, so we're making the world a dirtier and more dangerous place by exporting uranium.

not found evidence to show that Iraq sought uranium from abroad.

The uranium enrichment program, which has been decided upon by the country's top leaders, will continue.

This is consistent with our strategy of delineating ore resources for mining and accordingly bodes well for our plans for production of uranium at Dominion in 2007.

Inhaling uranium or plutonium is very dangerous and these kinds of radiation only hurt you when they're inside the body; they don't hurt you when they're outside.

India appears to have fully achieved all its negotiating objectives: importing uranium and nuclear technology, gaining recognition as a nuclear weapon state and preserving full freedom to expand its nuclear weapons capability as it sees fit.

I have no doubt that this strategic alliance will lead to the acquisition of more prospective uranium properties in Australia.

In each study, we've come away convinced that the use of depleted uranium munitions does not present significant or residual environmental or health risks,

If you don't want to burn uranium, you can burn coal or gas and melt the ice caps and break the bank, ... A truckload of uranium fuels a nuclear plant for two years, as compared to a trainload of coal every day.

Iran has removed the seals from a uranium enrichment plant and therefore urgent consultations are needed.

Iran's restarting of its uranium enrichment program was a slap in the face to Europe, which has tried to negotiate a reasonable outcome to this threat to the world -- only to have Iran shove it right back it their face.

Iran's adherence to the demands put forward by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an essential condition for the establishment of a joint Russian-Iranian uranium enrichment venture.

I am proud to announce that we have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.

I can smell the uranium on your breath

The Iranian government has made no positive steps demanded in the February 4 resolution of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency followed by a statement of the UN Security Council chairman on March 29, including to cease uranium enrichment activity.

A key component of President Bush's claim in his State of the Union address last January that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program -- its alleged attempt to buy uranium in Niger -- was disputed by a CIA-directed mission to the central African nation in early 2002, according to senior administration officials and a former government official.

The IAEA has concluded, with the concurrence of outside experts that these documents -- which formed the basis for the reports of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger -- are not in fact authentic,

The country is five to 10 years away from the ability to enrich uranium for fuel or bombs.

The challenge will be to bring more uranium production online to assure market balance.