Thomas M. Countryman: “It would be grasped by supporters of a nuclear program in Iran and by hardliners in Iran to assert that we were an…”

The problem with having a gold standard is it needs to have two things. It needs to be replicable, and it actually needs to be the best.

The U.S. relationship with China is one of the most important and complex relationships we have in the world.

The agreement is important to both governments. It serves as a commitment to each other that we are both determined to remain both technical and commercial leaders in the global nuclear power industry.

We have become, I would say, dangerously uncompetitive on the nuclear sphere when we cannot compete with countries like the French and the Russians.