Lamar Alexander actually said...

If you shut down Yucca Mountain after you've spent $12 billion and say you can't have central storage, you've got nobody to blame but yourself.

Alexander blames the government for failing to establish a nuclear storage solution.

07/13/2011

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During that time, you have no reason to think that they are in a dangerous condition when stored under NRC regulations on site.

It takes several years before they are cool enough to put into dry cast storage.

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It looks like it could be an opportunity for the United States, given our experience with small reactors with the Navy.