"Well, in the two plants I looked at, with respect to the dry casks, the casks at one plant were standing outside and the casks at the other plant were in a water-resistant building."
"It is imperative that comparable emergency procedures be provided for spent-fuel pool accidents to derive the same safety benefits that we derive from improved procedures for reactor core accidents."
"Do you believe such an assessment would be a good idea?"
"I agree with you."
"Did you have anything you want to say or a question to ask?"
"The irrefutable bottom line is that we have utterly failed to proper manage the risk from irradiated fuel stored at our Nation's nuclear power plants."
"we need to learn as much as we have. If the industry is going to do it, the NRC is going to do it"
"the most important thing we can do is advance the research on used nuclear fuel, on SMRs, on any other safety enhancements"
"Your thoughts have been very helpful. I would just ask that if you have other thoughts, please communicate them to this subcommittee because Dr. Moniz is right, this R&D program is directly under our ..."
"Well, didn't Japan have similar standards? Yet, the spent-fuel pools could not withstand the tsunami and the earthquake."
"I spoke to Ambassador Fujisaki Saturday and conveyed my really deep sympathy."