Tom Carper actually said...

"My personal opinion is at the moment, without a robust, discernible repository development program, the enthusiasm for moving early on consolidated storage will probably be short lived."

"In my State, my guess is the same is true in Wyoming or Tennessee or New Mexico or any other State, nobody wants to have a dump in their neighborhood or in their community."

"Many of the issues that arise along the way, what happened in the Waste Isolation Pilot Project was local people and State people were very worried about the safety issues."

"The status quo is not acceptable, and we have to be smarter than this."