John Shimkus: “The law says further that DOE shall file an application for a license to construct the repository, correct?”

I want to take this time to thank the panelists. They did a great job.

It is our responsibility as policymakers to closely examine the costs, the effectiveness, and other impacts of the environmental policies that affect energy.

There have been some people, a Senator friend of mine, who says the next energy revolution would not come from a mine. And I would beg to argue in that all of these precious minerals in that are coming from a mine.

I would hope in our discussions we would work with the majority to try to make sure we somehow incentivize nuclear baseload because of zero-carbon emissions.