I don't refer to it as nuclear waste myself. I refer to it as a nuclear resource.

Make the fundamental decision about whether to use Fed corp as the Blue Ribbon Commission recommends.

Certainly the idea was a useful one, and other countries have tried it.

We have to be smarter the second time through than we were the first time through.

I think it is sensible.

In my State, my guess is the same is true in Wyoming or Tennessee or New Mexico or any other State, nobody wants to have a dump in their neighborhood or in their community.

I also know that the interests of New Mexico will be in very good hands.

So instead of a my way or the highway, Federal Government calling the shots, you have the State in the car?

I want to thank you both for that joint testimony.

The overall record of DOE and of the Federal Government as a whole has not inspired confidence or trust in our nation's nuclear waste management program.

The status quo is not acceptable, and we have to be smarter than this.

Many of the issues that arise along the way, what happened in the Waste Isolation Pilot Project was local people and State people were very worried about the safety issues.

And in one of the front seats of the car.

I very much appreciate your interest in this issue and asserting jurisdiction of this Committee over this issue.

What he said.

That is, years or decades from now, just as you warned, Chairman Carper, others will face our current predicament.

A non-military development of nuclear energy.

A non-military environmental regulation and control of nuclear energy.