So having a sustainable flow of dollars based upon a plan can help save money as well by speeding things up and avoiding the jerkiness of the process.

I believe you said it is not just who has the biggest computer. It is also who has the personnel to operate such.

Doubling basic energy research is one of the most important things we can do to unleash our free enterprise system to help provide the clean, cheap, reliable energy we need to power our 21st-century economy.

Are you still on track to finish the facility under the $6.5 billion cost cap?

The real driver of our Federal debt is out-of-control mandatory spending on entitlement programs.

You still need a permanent repository to store your fuel.

I want to help create an environment in which you can succeed.

The obstacles here are the United States Congress and the President of the United States. That is us.

One of the recommendations, I believe, in the Red Team review was that it be a continuous sort of review.

Do you have sufficient resources at the Commission to complete the licensing activities for Watts Bar II this year?

I plan to work with our Republican majority--and, I hope, the President and Senate Democrats who share the same concerns--to make tough choices so we can pass a real plan to fix the debt while supporting other priorities like national…

In the report, which is due April 16, do you plan to recommend the lowest cost solution?

I read your op-ed, and those are very appropriate questions, important to our national security, and they cost a lot of money.

So 2017 would be the date, the estimated date, for 90 percent design completion.

So step one is to get everything into dry storage within 6 years.

I celebrate any example of your coming in under budget.

There should be a disciplined approach toward doing that.

If there were a private repository, not operated by the Department of Energy but licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that was willing to take your used fuel, would it be appropriate to use such a repository for that?