America faces what may be its greatest financial threat in its history.

if we continue as a country on this path, there is 100 percent certainty that we will face a national insolvency and bankruptcy.

About 15 billion.

So we have been at it basically for a quarter of a century.

Could be higher?

That is a success story and that is, as I understand it, transuranic material?

Did you all spend any time considering other options other than seeking consent which your own report says would be very difficult to obtain?

the fewer the number of times you handle that fuel, the better off everyone is.

what we have found is that our Nation's failure to come to grips with the nuclear waste issue has proved damaging and costly.

Well, is that of the same scope and magnitude of what we would need?

And we have already spent over $10 billion by your own testimony on Yucca Mountain.