"Let's just follow what Senator Graham suggested, that, as I understand it--I may be wrong, but, as I understand, the South Carolina agreement was that you get 90 percent of the waste removed..."
"$260 billion is a lot of money that could, I think, if we did this thing right, reduce that cost and save $100 billion."
"So, it's going to be decades before you-- but, your ultimate plan was to transmit this waste to Yucca, correct?"
"There are a lot of ramifications for not proceeding with Yucca. It's not just commercial-reactor spent fuel, it's nuclear Cold War residue, fuels like this."
"this $6 billion increase in funding was a stimulus package bill that DOE projects would create 13,000 jobs."
"Are you looking creatively and are you demanding of every employee under you that they are thinking on how we can do this project in an effective way?"
"It's just stunning, breathtaking beyond most anything anybody could imagine."
"We can't just waste that money. It has to be productively utilized."
"if you have provisions in those agreements that don't make sense for the taxpayers of America, have you undertaken any evaluation to see to what extent they can be amended to accomplish the goal and a..."
"But, do you agree--where did this $210- to $260-billion figure come from?"
"We can hope it would continue to maintain its democratic traditions."