After the Senator from South Carolina speaks, I intend to speak for 15 minutes and offer an amendment. Then it would be back to your side for whatever time you wish to take, so about half an hour from now.
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Yes, I do. And it's driven by people being concerned about carbon emissions and global warming, and common sense taking hold.
It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.
Without the 99 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 States, carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector would be approximately 25 percent higher.
Meeting state and national carbon reduction goals will be compromised without existing nuclear power plants.