I am urging you, do not rush these.

the actions that the Chairman took were consistent with the law, guidance and his authority.

if you were looking at a new proposal and it came to you on an earthquake site... I would assume you would say, take your plant somewhere else.

And of particular concern to me, groundwater from Yucca Mountain flows into my State.

But since it was raised by the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee, Senator Barrasso, I felt it was important to bring everybody up to date that a GAO investigation asked for by House Republicans basically said this was an appropriate…

The emergency in Japan serves as an important wake-up call for the United States and the rest of the world.

Because it was important to note that we found out that through a GAO report that Republicans asked for that they terminated, the DOE terminated the project, because it was not a workable option, and that there were benefits associated…

I think that was a smart thing they did, and the right thing.

Is there agreement on the panel on that statement by the Chairman, yes or no?

Will you assure me that the report containing the recommendations is delivered to my office and Senator Inhofe's office on the day it is delivered to the commissioners?

So in light of what happened in Japan, will the NRC consider new regulations that will prepare nuclear power plants to better handle a station blackout?

OK. Please correct the record for me, sir.

I think hearing both sides is fine. But at the end of the day, you have to perform your own inspections.

I am sorry to interrupt you. I am sorry, we understand that you care about nuclear safety, but we really ask you to put down your signs.

If there is an overall lesson to be learned from this, I think it is that you can't predict everything that will happen in the future.

when there is a safety problem you have to listen to both sides.

So you don't agree with the New York Times article where Charlie Miller, the chairman of the Task Force, said that studies by safety experts in the United States had analyzed the risks of losing electricity from the grid or from onsite…

Can you assure me that you will release that report to me and to Senator Inhofe?

It doesn't make it OK.

I believe that the focus should be on ensuring the safe operation of the 104 nuclear reactors in communities across our Nation, not on old, already-resolved issues.

But please tell me, don't you have the ability, I will ask the Chairman, to decide for yourself if a plant is safe or not safe?

We can't have an accident like this, is my point.

We have the AFL-CIO telling us there is sufficient labor to cover the needed work on the power plant.

the fact that we can do something about that ought to bring us together...

It is a horrific situation. If you suffer in your family a premature death because of the air pollution...