Dianne Feinstein

I, for one, would really like to know what kind of jeopardy they present.

Well, so you could open these spent fuel pools that are underground?

Won't this surge in shutdowns necessitate more staff to oversee utilities' decommissioning?

I understand at least two companies are pursuing the licensing of spent fuel storage facilities, capable of taking fuel from commercial reactors.

Can existing storage casks be transported and then used again for continuing storage?

I mean, something like that, based on what I know, I sure don't think that's safety, or safe.

And what is that framework that can provide it for a thousand years? That's not the longest time, that's a relatively short time.

How can the NRC be confident about the safety of waste stored 100 or 1,000 years from now at 78 reactor sites across 33 States?

Okay. In 2014 you issued a rule on the environmental effects of continued spent fuel storage at nuclear plants. This concerns me greatly.

Yes, I guess my question goes to, the heart of it is, if you have to do it for a million years, how does the Commission feel equipped to know what would happen in a million years?

It's my understanding that you furnished an environmental impact statement, finding that long-term radioactive risk to groundwater would not exceed environmental standards over the next million years.

I want to just point out that our nuclear waste bill, which we still need to introduce in this new session, is all voluntary.

This industry has got to work with us to solve these problems.

I have reached, Mr. Chairman, a level of real frustration.

And I've always felt that's the way the Senate should function.

It's been 24 years we've been doing this.

Yes. We've got to do something.

California's historic 5-year drought killed over 102 million trees across the State, and the impacts will continue to be felt for years to come.

I believe that Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution to the nuclear waste stalemate.

They believe there's no reason he can't testify at both.

It is time for the American people to begin to understand that, as the Director said, we do in fact have an existential threat in the Pacific Ocean and we need to come to grips with it.

North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs will continue to pose a serious threat to U.S. interests.

I would argue that the greatest danger to the United States is North Korea.

Government contractors are only supposed to be used if they are performing tasks that are not an inherent governmental function.

I think I feel very strongly that the time is coming for this report to be declassified, that it should not be hidden.