Mike Simpson actually said...

"Whatever you do, do not fill in that tunnel. That is a $16 billion tunnel and we are going to store all the studies that have been done on Yucca Mountain."

"And just to clarify, when CO2 goes into the atmosphere, does it stay over the place it was produced or does it go around the world?"

"It would seem to me that it would be wiser to seek the legislative changes that would be necessary to move ahead with interim storage."

"It is important for us to maintain any ability to decarbonize the economy. We must have this type of power coming online."