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US president's speech at Hankuk University on the value of nuclear technologies
US president's speech at Hankuk University on the value of nuclear technologies: "http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/26/remarks-president-obama-hankuk-university
..."And this brings me to the final area where we’ve made progress -- a
renewed commitment to harnessing the power of the atom not for war, but
for peaceful purposes. After the tragedy at Fukushima, it was right and
appropriate that nations moved to improve the safety and security of
nuclear facilities. We’re doing so in the United States. It’s taking
place all across the world.
As we do, let’s never forget the
astonishing benefits that nuclear technology has brought to our lives.
Nuclear technology helps make our food safe. It prevents disease in the
developing world. It’s the high-tech medicine that treats cancer and
finds new cures. And, of course, it’s the energy -- the clean energy
that helps cut the carbon pollution that contributes to climate change.
Here in South Korea, as you know, as a leader in nuclear energy, you’ve
shown the progress and prosperity that can be achieved when nations
embrace peaceful nuclear energy and reject the development of nuclear
arms.
And with rising oil prices and a warming climate, nuclear
energy will only become more important. That’s why, in the United
States, we’ve restarted our nuclear industry as part of a comprehensive
strategy to develop every energy source. We supported the first new
nuclear power plant in three decades. We’re investing in innovative
technologies so we can build the next generation of safe, clean nuclear
power plants. And we’re training the next generation of scientists and
engineers who are going to unlock new technologies to carry us forward.
One of the great challenges they’ll face and that your generation will
face is the fuel cycle itself in producing nuclear energy. We all know
the problem: The very process that gives us nuclear energy can also put
nations and terrorists within the reach of nuclear weapons. We simply
can’t go on accumulating huge amounts of the very material, like
separated plutonium, that we’re trying to keep away from terrorists.
And that’s why we’re creating new fuel banks, to help countries realize
the energy they seek without increasing the nuclear dangers that we
fear. That’s why I’ve called for a new framework for civil nuclear
cooperation. We need an international commitment to unlocking the fuel
cycle of the future. In the United States we’re investing in the
research and development of new fuel cycles so that dangerous materials
can’t be stolen or diverted. And today I urge nations to join us in
seeking a future where we harness the awesome power of the atom to build
and not to destroy."
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