"I think it is a lot of semantics being used, quite frankly, to confuse and scare the public."
"I would urge the Commission to face that."
"The obvious question is, why not?"
"Today, I want to urge our commissioners to be precise and direct with your thoughts on these initiatives."
"I think that would really be unfortunate."
"It is also my understanding that staff has studied the safety of the pools ten times now and has consistently concluded that the fuel pools are safe."
"I am not suggesting that, but it does seem reasonable that there is a significant difference between a nuclear plant that is operating and a nuclear plant that is shut down."
"I am concerned that taking so long to move on in that area really clutters your table and doesn't allow you to properly focus on the Tier 1 recommendations, the high priority recommendations."
"I want to reState what I said. The Chairman was sort of suggesting that I was saying that a decommissioned site, a run of the mill industrial site doesn't need concern, doesn't need a lot of careful r..."
"Thank you, Chairman Boxer, for convening today's hearing and I want to thank our NRC commissioners for your work, your dedication and for being here to testify."
"While the President's efforts to kill coal fire generation are obvious and already underway, I am really concerned about another and somewhat more subversive and under cover effort which is ongoing to..."