Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
a few years ago, I recommended--5 years ago, in a speech at Oak Ridge--that we build 100 new reactors.
Today we'll discuss the recent Task Force Report on the Future of Nuclear Power.
The place is Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and the law says that's where it should go.
So you would be comfortable with losing the nuclear option in terms of our country's ability to deal with climate change...
I want to do whatever I can to create an environment where a utility can make that decision, if it's possible to extend ...
I think it's in the best interests of the country, for many, many reasons.
Without a more focused government effort, we will not sustain our vital nuclear industry and control nuclear proliferati...
We need to set big, ambitious goals.
The Subcommittee on Energy and Water will please come to order.
I think we need to identify the bottlenecks, we need to be ready to really roll up our sleeves across a lot of different...
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 want to make sure that if we're going to have something that our kids and grandkids and generations and gener...
Senator Feinstein and I are united on that;
We need to invest in the next generation of reactors.
We will discuss the recent Task Force Report on the Future of Nuclear Power from the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Boar...
So we would lose 20 percent of our what, we call our base load capacity, of our electricity, which is base load capacity...
Well, Senator Feinstein and I are going to figure out how to pass that bill.
