We hope that is true.

I think the biggest enhancement that we will have after this first wave is completed is that we expect that some of these designs will be approved.

As far as I understand, somebody can correct me if I am wrong, Yucca Mountain is now dead.

If that is not going anywhere, how with a straight face can anybody be talking about building new nuclear power plants?

I welcome comments from anyone else on the panel.

Thank you, Chairman Carper.

I don't think that is illegal. I don't think it is against WTO rules. I am speaking for the people who don't have work.

we are excited about the prospect of the clean energy that it will create.

As Commissioners, you lead the agency in charge of nuclear safety that is most admired throughout the world.

So what I am asking here is to direct the NRC that if we file applications for export to overseas markets, that they do get a high priority for review.

That just isn't right.

our priority for this year has been really three-fold. The first most important priority has been jobs. The second has been jobs. And the third has been jobs.

If we let that happen, shame on us.

So, yes, there certainly are jobs to be created in building new nuclear plants, but it is important to focus on the net impacts, not the gross impacts.

We can revive manufacturing in the United States.

So my hope is that we find ways to use less energy, and that we will find a way to put a price on carbon.

Americans regard ourselves as the early pioneers. We are the early pioneers of nuclear technology.

This is one of those recoveries which has the very real potential of being led by manufacturing.