On the recordDecember 8, 2011
Sure. And paying for a long time. Let me add, for every year we delay opening--Yucca Mountain is not going away; it doesn't disappear off the face of the Earth--for every year we delay, it's costing us half a billion dollars more than what it's ultimately going to cost. So my constituents, your constituents, anybody who uses any aspect of nuclear power, which is almost everybody, has been paying for this. This isn't some giant expenditure we're going to have to make out of the general fund when we don't have any money. This is already being funded. It's already being paid for. It only makes sense. I think the colleagues that are joining me here today will say the same thing: this just makes sense.
