Secretary Moniz said at our hearing that by the end of the year, the Department would begin the process of moving forwar...
Senator Feinstein and I don't agree on everything about nuclear power, but we agree on this priority.
I want to imagine a day the United States is without nuclear power, a day that I don't want to see in our country's futu...
My own view is that we ought to open Yucca Mountain, because the science and the law say we should do it.
I think the confluence of the low-carbon future, the importance of that, specifically in the power sector, and the fact ...
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...
Now, Senator Feinstein and Secretary Moniz, the vote is well underway, and there are two votes.
I've been critical of the Administration's, what I believe to be, obsession with giant wind turbines and the continued s...
Don't you see a real disconnect in the public discussion between those who see the urgency of climate change but who don...
We have significant bipartisan support in the Senate for moving on several tracks at the same time and with the hope tha...
In practical terms, that means we can get another 20 years of cheaper, reliable, carbon-free electricity.
If 20 of the leading science agencies in the industrialized countries of the world have said it's a threat and that huma...
I want to compliment you, and your predecessor, too, for continuing to be an advocate for the importance of nuclear powe...
You support the idea that we should move on several tracks at the same time.
I think our nuclear energy percentage, as a whole, is going to go down, and we're going to have a decimated industry.
Unless you do something like the 25-year $11.6 billion program to create advanced reactors, we won't have the option.
But do you believe we can open--so you--it would fail because groups like yours don't support doing it even though the s...
I appreciate the hearing. I think it's a good discussion.
