Zach Nunn: “I support the Senator from South Carolina and his position. Savannah River has been the tritium production complex since…”

“I support the Senator from South Carolina and his position. Savannah River has been the tritium production complex since the dawn of the nuclear age. It has the infrastructure, it has the trained work force, it has the experience, it is a logical place for the new tritium facility, whatever technology is being chosen. We do not have in this bill now, as I understand this amendment...that would tell the Secretary of Energy what kind of reactor to have. She still has that choice--the light-water reactor, the gas reactor, the multipurpose reactor, heavy water or even the accelerator. All of those technologies are available. The Secretary of Energy said she is going to make this decision sometime in late summer or early fall. That means that this bill is bound to be in conference in September, and if the Secretary of Energy makes any other decision, other than Savannah River, then certainly we will have a time to study that carefully and to react to that in conference. So I support the Senator from South Carolina on this. I urge the defeat of the second-degree amendment.”