Jeff Bingaman said...

The Commission makes a strong case for interim storage, but only in the context of a parallel disposal program.

There's a need for a mechanism to ensure that the temporary storage facility does not take the place of a long term repo...

Regrettably, we were not as successful as the Blue Ribbon Commission was in reaching a unanimous bipartisan consensus.

In the end, we cannot, and we should not, expend resources on every known vulnerability: it would just be too expensive.