We cannot let the Department turn its back on these facilities, these workers, or these communities again.
Kentucky's unemployment rate is right at 10 percent. We cannot afford to lose 1 more job, let alone 1,200.
So, you would rather make the money later than make the money now.
But that is not the issue at Paducah, is it? That is going to happen in Portsmouth.
Well, you know, we have got 1,200 employees sitting there wondering if they are going to be without a job.
But you start re-enriching them now; you still employ 1,200 people.
If they were re-enriched, it would be a profitable venture.
Many people think of Kentucky as a coal State, which we are, but we are also a nuclear State.
So, under this scenario, it strikes me the Government loses an opportunity for revenue, we lose 1,200 jobs, and you are ...
I think I correctly heard you that you have no plan to re-enrich the tails.
These are Government-owned resources, highly valued, stored in a lot which could be sold to create revenue for the Gover...