Jimmy Carter actually said...

"Construction of the Clinch River facility in no way is necessary to ensure continued development of nuclear technologies."

"I cannot approve this legislation because: it mandates funding for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Demonstration Plant, that will result in a large and unnecessarily expensive project."

"It puts burdensome limitations on the President and the new Department of Energy in exercising necessary judgment to provide an effective energy research and development program."

"I believe that we should continue our research and development program without large, unnecessary expenditures for a technologically obsolete project."