Political Quotes

“I say to my friend relative to his reference to an unprecedented scale which he suggests will occur, that factually is just not so. As a matter of fact, the French alone have moved 30,000 metric tons of spent fuel--that is spent nuclear fuel. This is the same amount we currently have, or approximately the same amount we have in the United States today. I remind my colleagues of one other thing. While it is true we do not have support from the environmental movement in this country, the reality is that most of those groups are opposed to the generation of power by nuclear energy. What they do not do is recognize the obligation that since we are nearly 22 percent dependent on nuclear energy, we are going to have to meet the demand with something else. Nuclear power opponents want to terminate the industry, by not allowing the States to have the availability of storage under State licenses. So when one looks at the environmental concern, you have to recognize the environmentalists are not really meeting their obligation, and that is to come up with an alternative.”