Thomas M. Countryman: “We would argue that any effort to step away from JCPOA would reopen a Pandora's box in that region that we do not think…”

I would like to see this administration and this Congress make a long-term commitment to steadily expanded resources for the International Atomic Energy Agency because, yes, it is that central to U.S. security and to global security.

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

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.

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.