I would have to observe that if we closed the Yankee Nuclear plant in Vermont, it would take about 1,800 50-story wind turbines all over the...
The Senator from Vermont and I have some agreement as well as some differences of opinion on energy.
Mr. Jaczko, is it approximately correct that the amount of used nuclear fuel that we have stored onsite at the 104 commercial reactors, if w...
If it is not being released in harmful amounts and if that is the opinion of scientists at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, someone should...
I think the idea of having more regular oversight by this Subcommittee would be helpful.
I would like to suggest that, and to tie that to the suggestion from Mr. Apostolakis and Senator Sanders' point about tritium.
I have a couple. I don't mind if Senator Sanders wants to go ahead.
Sometimes I think oversight in Congress is the authority and constitutional responsibility we have that we exercise the least.
Mr. Jaczko, has there ever been a fatality as a result of an accident at a commercial nuclear reactor in the United States?
Overall, the nuclear industry has an outstanding safety record.
To the Chairman, if the goal of the Department of Energy program for small reactors is to have two design certifications completed by 2015 a...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
That didn't sound like a yes.
Secretary Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President Obama's Energy Secretary, says it is still too expensive by a factor of fo...
I applaud the President for the quality of his appointments here and for the Commission that is looking at used nuclear fuel.
I think it is important that we have a regular and an open discussion about such things as tritium so that we, Senators, understand it.
But if you have $100 and you lose $1, that is a problem. You don't want it to happen, but it is not necessarily harmful to you.
I'm wary of--not to use a pejorative word--a czar with no boss in an area of such unprecedented importance.
