Montenegro's accession to NATO has only come after meaningful reforms in its security sector.

Montenegro is ready for NATO membership.

We cannot afford to take nuclear energy for granted.

If all the nuclear power plants were closed in this country, it's the equivalent of adding 115 million cars to the road.

Under the present rules, yes. However, if the State----

Meeting state and national carbon reduction goals will be compromised without existing nuclear power plants.

Yes, I do. And it's driven by people being concerned about carbon emissions and global warming, and common sense taking hold.

Our Nation's nuclear power plants are vital national assets that provide reliable, carbon-free electricity.

Nuclear energy will play in our clean energy future.

It makes no sense to close down nuclear reactors if they still have useful life.

She openly admits that, at one time, as an active environmentalist, she was totally opposed to nuclear power.

Without the 99 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 States, carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector would be approximately 25 percent higher.

There's never been a death at a nuclear power plant as a result of a reactor accident in the United States.

It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.

the issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.

Actually, so much of what I was going to say has already been said, and said better than I could say it.

I'm disappointed... that we have not been responsive in the way that we should in order to address the future challenges.

I share the issues that you raised in your testimony with respect to the importance of nuclear power as we're addressing our need to reduce carbon emissions.