Judd Gregg: “We have just been advised by CBO that the underlying bill, the Edwards-Collins bill, will have $8 billion savings…”

The issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.

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.

There's never been a death at a nuclear power plant as a result of a reactor accident in the United States.