"A second set of priorities that I see for myself and this government is a further reduction of dependence on a single source. First of all, this involves putting forward three bills during the spring session, namely: the LNG law, the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) law, and amendments to the Law on Heating Sector... talks on the Visaginas NPP (VAE) and debates on the required laws will be one of the key tasks during the parliamentary spring session." Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuanian President, on 12 January 2012 (source: BNS)

“If we do not have an international legally binding agreement soon, and if it doesn’t give a boost to a major investment wave of clean energy technologies by 2017, the door to 2 degrees will be closed forever. A shift away from nuclear power would definitely be bad news for energy security, for climate change and also for the economics of the electricity price.” ,” Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency on 9 November (Source: Bloomberg)

 “There will be, in the short term, a slowdown in some countries. But others like France, India or China (won’t see) an impact on their (nuclear) programmes. You can see that a lot of the large emerging economies are looking seriously at already expanding their use of nuclear energy. For example, China and India are expanding by five to eight times their use of nuclear energy by 2020 or 2022. Brazil is expanding its nuclear power programme. South Africa is looking seriously to do so. All these large emerging countries, with large populations and development challenges, have to rely on nuclear energy. They have no other option. Some of them don't even have fossil fuel like China; even then they would face huge climate-change issues.” Mohamed ElBaradei, former International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General on 24 October (source: Wall Street Journal)

"Nuclear energy has risks, but we face the greater risk of accelerating climate change if we do not embark on another generation of nuclear power. Time is running out. Nuclear can be a vital and affordable means of providing low carbon electricity," Chris Huhne, British Climate Change Secretary, speaking at the Royal Society on 13 October (source: The Guardian)

"We consider increasing electricity production in nuclear plants from some 30 percent to about 60 percent by 2050.We have been mining uranium and there's no doubt nuclear energy is irreplaceable for us in the long term," Tomas Huner, Czech Deputy Industry and Trade Minister on 8 October (source: Associated Press)