Are you looking creatively and are you demanding of every employee under you that they are thinking on how we can do this project in an effe...
this $6 billion increase in funding was a stimulus package bill that DOE projects would create 13,000 jobs.
There are a lot of ramifications for not proceeding with Yucca. It's not just commercial-reactor spent fuel, it's nuclear Cold War residue, ...
So, it's going to be decades before you-- but, your ultimate plan was to transmit this waste to Yucca, correct?
$260 billion is a lot of money that could, I think, if we did this thing right, reduce that cost and save $100 billion.
But, now, of course, if I had signed an agreement, I might find it politically difficult to agree to any modification that reduced spending,...
Let's just follow what Senator Graham suggested, that, as I understand it--I may be wrong, but, as I understand, the South Carolina agreemen...
I consider the amount of money we're talking about unacceptable. $260 billion is unacceptable.
We've gone from having a plan to having no plan. That's what Senator McCain has complained about, and I think he's correct.
It has impact if we don't use Yucca, because--frankly, I share your view that the storage, in dry cask storage on site, is not a danger.
But, do you agree--where did this $210- to $260-billion figure come from?
if you have provisions in those agreements that don't make sense for the taxpayers of America, have you undertaken any evaluation to see to ...
Could I interrupt?
The final bill, at a staggering $1.2 trillion, is the largest single expenditure in our Nation's history.
It's difficult for me to imagine how it could be spent effectively in the short timeframe it's been suggested it would be spent.
I think--of course it's a benefit in cleaning up, but I'm talking about the economy and the productivity of the Nation is not much enhanced ...
It's just stunning, breathtaking beyond most anything anybody could imagine.
But, you would admit that, just a few years ago, the high-side estimate for the cleanup was $180 billion, I believe, and now the high-side e...
