Dianne Feinstein

I have really come to my own conclusion that the way we best protect Americans is by having some regional facilities where the storage of nuclear waste can be done over the hundreds of years, supervised by the Government.

We have 104 nuclear power plants in this country; California has 2.

So, there is a list of priorities?

So, the question is, what is NNSA doing to consolidate nuclear materials to a much smaller and easier to protect number of sites and buildings, especially in Russia?

With regard to the stockpile, it is true that we have the oldest stockpile we have ever had.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

I am confident in NIF's ability to achieve ignition by fiscal year 2012.

I want my grandchildren and their children to grow up in a nuclear-free world. I am going to do everything I can to be helpful to get there.

So, what you are telling me is that the administration's design, or the Government's design, is that there are essentially 3,500.

I do not want to see, you know, RRW in disguise right now.

You could make that 2-year goal.

I look forward to working with you. We did so on Interior, and we will do so on this subcommittee as well.

How much mandatory funding accompanies the $51.5 million in discretionary funding you have proposed for fiscal year 2012?

It is my understanding that the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund has a significant surplus.

Would you let me know, please, because, obviously, I am vitally concerned.

We do not believe money should be taken from this trust fund for other use.

I guess what I am telling you as chairman--I do not know if others would agree with it--but that is not the right thing to do.

I want to reiterate my appreciation for the long-standing support of this subcommittee.

The infrastructure that is constructed continues to benefit the economy for decades

If you had these pits, how much would you reduce the stockpile by? I mean, this is important.

What you have always led me to believe is that modernization is really for the protection of the workers...

I am not for new nuclear weapons. I will do everything I can to prevent the development of a new nuclear weapon.

I understand that April 2010 was the halfway mark of the goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear materials in 4 years.

I expressed some concern about the risk of insiders stealing or helping to steal nuclear materials.

How about the other two most at-risk dams?