Richard Burr: “For 20 years from then we are now here today trying to make sure that a process continues to move forward, and I found…”

“For 20 years from then we are now here today trying to make sure that a process continues to move forward, and I found it striking that Senator Broyhill looked at me and said we envisioned that this would only take 10 years. Well, it has taken 20 now; and the question, as the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) so appropriately raised, are we going to allow it to go to the next step? This is not about shipping waste tomorrow. This is about allowing a process to go to the next step where in the licensing phase we may learn more. To stand up and suggest that science has not been applied to this project is only to say that under the definition in Webster's there is one area that we have not covered, whether it is applicable or not, but every study that people have suggested has been done on this site.”