Arjun Makhijani Quotes

Pakistan, Engineer
January 1, 1945

Arjun Makhijani is an electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Makhijani has written many books and reports analyzing the safety, economics, and efficiency of various energy sources. He has testified before Congress and has served as an expert witness in Nuclear Regulatory Commission proceedings.

This rule is a transparent attempt to accommodate the industry.

Arjun Makhijani
Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think, be intolerable because you have to build an immense number of nuclear power plants, one large plant a week around the world for the next 40 years, to make a significant dent in the global warming problem.

Arjun Makhijani

This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry.

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In the proposed EPA rule, every norm of radiation protection that has been established for the general public since the late 1950s ... is to be thrown overboard.

Arjun Makhijani
I'm really shocked the EPA has proposed this, ... It's not a standard to protect public health. It's a standard to protect the industry's interest in Yucca Mountain.

Arjun Makhijani
This is appalling that the National Cancer Institute did not make this available as soon as possible. It's been too long sitting on this.

Arjun Makhijani
DOE must expeditiously review records to determine which groups of workers who labored to make and test this country's huge nuclear arsenal were put at risk.

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- Workers
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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.

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- Outside