You mean the material arrives, and within 6 years, it's in a dry cask, is that what you're saying?

If we want to get this fuel off these sites, that is one way to do it.

If it is a legitimate concern of our country that we want lots of low cost, reliable carbon free electricity...

The President's budget estimates the Nuclear Waste Fund has a balance of $36 billion at the beginning of fiscal year 2016.

It could go to Yucca Mountain or to one of the repositories that we're envisioning through the legislation Senator Feinstein and I are working on.

It is the politicians who are keeping Yucca Mountain shut, and it is the politicians who are not opening new consolidated repositories.

I mean, eight reauthorizations to the Higher Education Act since 1965, eight groups of well-meaning Senators, eight groups of well-meaning legislators.

Even now without passing our bill, correct?

The hearing record will remain open for 10 days.

But the bottom line is the only problem you need to solve is you need water to cool the reactor, and you need the power to pump the water.

So, Senator Feinstein, did you--I was confusing--if the Texas application is approved----

Of course, Senator Feinstein's passion and urgency for getting the nuclear waste out of the sites in California where reactors are not operating in the 78 sites, getting it out of spent fuel and dry cask to a single--the easiest way to do…

When the Senate functions, which it occasionally does, it does so because of collegiality such as that exists between the Senator from California and me.

I mean, in the university case, it is $11,000 per student at that university on the tuition costs.

Senator Feinstein and I will include that in the Energy and Water bill.

Later this year, I will reintroduce bipartisan legislation with Senators Feinstein, Murkowski and perhaps others, to create both temporary and permanent storage sites for nuclear waste.

It doesn't make much sense to the guy on the sideline to look at that and say, okay, you want deeper ports and you want to fix locks and you have the money in the bank but you won't spend it.

I think you have testified that you are doing everything the courts ordered you to do in terms of proceeding towards completing Yucca Mountain, correct?