Dianne Feinstein

The FBI has been able to disrupt plots in the United States.

I would be very interested in knowing how it went, what broke down, what was imprecise, what was very precise?

I don't want to see us look back on this as we have looked back on one other project and say, well $600 million has been wasted.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Can the $345 million be spent? What if you decide to do something else?

Now, this started out costing $4 billion and being complete in 2016. It's now expected to cost as much as $13 billion and not be ready until the late 2020s.

The amount of plutonium used in these experiments is very small.

How old is the missile when it begins to show age?

That would be excellent. And include in it the B61 and the number of B61s we have.

I very much appreciate the fact, Dr. Cook, that you're looking at it.

I hope to cover two subjects in my 5 minutes. One is the hedge, and the second is a new nuclear cruise missile.

And that has not been dropped?

Having reserve weapons may be smart policy, but maintaining two spares for each deployed weapon is excessive.

Of our stockpile of 4,804 weapons, only 1,600 are currently deployed, which means there are 3,204 backup weapons.

According to the U.S. Department of Education there were over 1.2 million homeless students attending public schools.

This really changes my support of the nuclear industry because if things are going to be built that they are going to be there forever and never moved...

It is my understanding that these are only really cost effective if you can site a number in one place.

The problem for me, and, again, just a simple problem, is that it is all out of sight.

Did you approve those steam generators? Not you, but did the Commission?

Well, in one case I think there was a small--very small radioactive leak.

I would say particularly because of earth instability in that area, you would want to get the stuff out of there.

I can think of a whole host of things that could happen that are not predictable.

It would seem to me that a public agency would want to protect the public above all.

Well, thanks very much, Mr. Chairman. And, Mr. Burns, essentially what you are saying, if I understand it, is that there is now a voluntary proposal to provide a pilot nuclear waste facility in Texas.

To me, storing this stuff at waste sites, candidly, is not acceptable.