William Bryan: “Apropos to the Senator's comment that we have heard time and time again that there is a crisis that is unfolding, does…”

“Apropos to the Senator's comment that we have heard time and time again that there is a crisis that is unfolding, does the Senator recall back in the early 1980's when a program that was referred to as the away-from-reactor-storage concept, which is similar to the interim storage that we are dealing with, that the nuclear utilities in America came forward and indicated that if they did not have away-from-reactor-storage capability--this was in the early eighties--that by 1983 there may be brownouts across the country, that nuclear utilities would be forced to close with all kinds of electrical distribution crises appearing in cities across the country? And if the Senator recalls that, does this not seem like a familiar refrain of the old cry of wolf again and again and again because, in point of fact, as I understand it--and I invite the Senator to respond to my question--there really is no crisis? There is no reason for us to be on an issue such as the S. 1936 bill, as the Senator mentions. Does the Senator recall that history? The Senator has been in this Chamber longer than I have. But this is such a familiar refrain to this Senator.”