It's a commonsense answer that you don't shut down your noncarbon-emitting energy source to replace it by carbon-emittin...
I think it's so appropriate that we have this hearing that we look at this as a part of the Disrupter Series and not be ...
Imagine a day when the United States is without nuclear power. That's a day I don't want to see in our country's future.
I think we need to identify the bottlenecks, we need to be ready to really roll up our sleeves across a lot of different...
We need to take steps today to ensure nuclear power has a future in our country.
So you support opening Yucca Mountain?
We are purely an investigative committee. And oftentimes that translates into pure political theater.
Now, there are band-aids here or there but really there is no alternative so it is not a question of if we had only done...
Now, Senator Feinstein and Secretary Moniz, the vote is well underway, and there are two votes.
So, it would seem to me that we're just introducing one more element of policy, the Clean Power Plan, in the name of car...
Well, Senator Feinstein and I have been working for 5 years on this, and we were doing a pretty good job of reconciling ...
The law says it should, the court says the law says that, and the scientists say it's safe for a million years there.
if we hadn't acted by 2030, the option would be gone
What would replace it?
But, the Clean Power Plan which is currently being appealed, I guess to the Supreme Court, if I'm correct about this, it...
We have to decide we're going to do this. We have to set clear goals.
I think the confluence of the low-carbon future, the importance of that, specifically in the power sector, and the fact ...
My own view is that we ought to open Yucca Mountain, because the science and the law say we should do it.