I think we have to know that. We are doing it for a private sector reason.
We have 100 nuclear power plants here in America, and we do not have a capacity here to test aging nuclear components?
We have our own research reactors in the United States. We have our own brilliant scientists here in the United States.
To think that we are dependent upon the Norwegians to do this research to make sure that now these aging plants do not endanger the public i...
I am shocked that we do not have the indigenous capacity in the United States to do the testing of aging nuclear parts in a nuclear power pl...
You know, it should not be you. They should be the ones making the case for a 123 agreement, not you.
Right. Well, again, the Russians in Chernobyl did not have a containment dome. So they did not have safety requirements in Russia at that ti...
Every time we do it, there should be a good reason for it. That is my view.
So the need for the joint research between the United States and Norway at Halden in Norway appears to be the main reason for a new 123 agre...
So we are trying to encourage people, I would think, to not act in a way that is uneconomic, which is reprocessing, to also act in a way whi...
My answer would be, of course, it makes it harder to discourage other countries, the deeper we get involved in the industry ourselves even i...