John Myers: “First off, Mr. Chairman, I would ask the gentleman, are his children and grandchildren going to have power, the electric…”

“First off, Mr. Chairman, I would ask the gentleman, are his children and grandchildren going to have power, the electric energy we are using now to cool this building? The light water reactor has been the workhorse for the past 40 years for the Department of Energy, the only reactor we have. What is going to be the power source for our children and grandchildren? This is what we are looking to now. Sure, it is looking down the road a ways, but do we want safe, available power? Then this gas-cooled, yes, helium-cooled, but it is a gas turbine, an entirely different reactor than most of the Members have been describing here today. First off, Mr. Chairman, I would say to the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Foley] and the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], who mentioned the utilities putting their money up. There is more than $800 million spent by the utility companies, the utility consortium, they have put in $800 million of their own money so far, and they are still supporting it, as has been expressed here. It was said it cost over $2 billion, $2.6 billion, to continue the research. That would be a new power reactor which would be the reactor to destroy high level fuel. That has nothing to do with that, it would be entirely owned by government, entirely paid for by government. It is a different reactor entirely.”