Judd Gregg: “You said essentially that you are controlling spending. Well, you are not.”

We cannot afford to take nuclear energy for granted.

The issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.

It makes no sense to close down nuclear reactors if they still have useful life.

Without the 99 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 States, carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector would be approximately 25 percent higher.