I do share your sense of urgency though, that we must get moving on this.
I think that this is a very timely hearing on the Blue Ribbon Commission's report, their recommendations.
You have mentioned that we have ten stranded sites where we're incurring pretty considerable expense for the security in...
But the important thing that I think your question raises is the linkage between the storage and the disposal.
Clearly, this economic recovery has been long delayed. It remains fragile.
Of course you do have some apprehension out there now as we look at some of these quasi-Federal agencies that have this ...
I think I was wrong. I think we're actually in a worse position than we were before.
But if you structure it as has been proposed with access to the funding that you have recommended, do you have any sugge...
You do have to give that promise or make good on that promise that it will have a permanent repository.
we're recommending is an adaptive, staged, consent-based approach.
we have a fundamental obligation. It's a legal obligation; it's an ethical obligation to the generation that follows us.
we want to give to that future generation the options... to make their choices and make this work out all well.
any attempt to force a solution, top-down, a federally mandated solution... is going to take longer, it's going to cost ...
Recognizing--I'm assuming that you've got these stranded sites all over the country. Do you move to one consolidated sto...
My time is expired. But Mr. Burkhard, Mr. Diwan, anything briefly that you would add to that?
I think that would be a disappointing finish for us.
The economics are tough for an overland route through Canada into the lower 48.
But if you had price stability last year the picture going forward is a little different.
