Any effort to undermine those investments, including by stopping the Clean Power Plan from moving forward is short-sighted.

I hope that today's hearing will provide the insights needed to accomplish that goal.

I support this guidance in principle because it fosters a sense of urgency within Hubs to define and achieve goals as expeditiously as possible.

We have something like 300-plus light water reactors in the world. They're very expensive, something like half a trillion dollars in replacement value for those reactors.

Maybe there should be some process through which, according to merit-based review, that Hub is permitted to continue pursuing promising research and maybe even profound new discoveries.

It's my hope that Congress can provide to you the resources that you need to accomplish your goals.

I appreciate the Chairman and his staff's efforts to work together to ensure that this important provision was included in the final bill.

some of the problems associated with using fission for power generation are meltdowns, radioactive waste, and nuclear proliferation.

What does that tell us about the market's assessment of the future of nuclear energy?

Is the market basically trying to tell us that nuclear fission, as a market, is doomed, given the fact that uranium now costs 75 percent less than it did even seven years ago?

I believe that now is the time to build and operate experiments that are capable of demonstrating that man-made fusion systems can consistently produce far more energy than it takes to fuel them.