As you develop greater understanding, I'd certainly appreciate the NRC sharing with us your thinking and the direction in which you're heading.

It's very important that we look at this.

I believe there have been conversations in the IAEA community about overseeing this entire fuel cycle in the future.

It's more of a carrot-and-stick approach.

Power interruptions cost the United States economy roughly $80 billion per year.

Senator Udall has urged that we have this hearing.

But again, those are going to be primarily within the purview of State commissions to work with State utilities at the distribution level.

So, at this point, you are exploring both the idea of a centralized storage approach and a decentralized storage approach.

I look forward to receiving a copy of it when you complete it.

I would urge you to do so.

It holds the promise of dramatically increasing capacity utilizations of the generation, transmission, and distribution system.

I think we can move forward in the storage area in a bipartisan way.

I wanted to pursue this line of questioning. As I understand, interruptions to our power systems cost us about $80 billion annually.

this could very well be a game-changer.

The effect on the price of regulation services.

If we find a way to store the power generated from the sun and the wind, really all energy resources, then we can transform the energy industry forever.

I foresee--I am not a good forecaster--hundreds in the next--I would say 500, 700 megawatts of battery in the PJM system is not unreasonable to expect.

That is astounding to me, and this seems to be a real opportunity for storage because storage can help reduce those outages.