Reactor Quotes

When the DPRK is back to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons with the IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we'll have a discussion about the subject of the provision of light water reactor. - Christopher Hill

What we have made clear is that we will have a discussion on the issue of peaceful nuclear energy, and in particular the subject of the provision of a light water reactor, but only at an appropriate time. - Christopher Hill

What North Korea really needs is a shipload of weather stripping [insulation material] to fix the holes in the windows in winter in the buildings where people are trying to survive. A reactor is about the last thing you would turn to from an energy perspective. - Peter Hayes

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon? - David R. Brower

We're getting 24-7 coverage on Iran -- which is still likely several years away from being able to produce a single nuclear weapon -- and little coverage on North Korea, which any day could shut down its nuclear reactor and obtain the plutonium for what could be its 10th, 11th or 12th nuclear weapon. - Jon Wolfstahl

We will be prepared to have a discussion about the subject of the provision of a light water reactor but only after (North Korea) gets rid of its nuclear weapons, gets rid of its nuclear programs, gets back into the NPT and has IAEA safeguards. - Christopher Hill

We want to help lead the country and the world into the hydrogen economy. Japan and China are the only countries in the world with high temperature helium-cooled test reactors, and each is working to generate hydrogen from such systems as an alternative energy source. - Jim Wright

We urge the DPRK not to restart its frozen nuclear facilities, including the five-megawatt reactor. - Lou Fintor