This is an enormous step backwards.

But the bottom line I think, if we cannot use that fund, there are zero dollars in your budget for cleaning up uranium enrichment sites in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio.

I do not think it is a very complicated equation. I think instead of tax credit for mature technologies to subsidize wind developers, most of that money goes to rich people who take tax deductions, and to subsidize oil and gas production…

Governing is about setting priorities, and given our current fiscal constraints--especially on non-defense spending--we are going to have to make some hard decisions this year to make sure the highest priorities are funded.

What kind of reactors do you consider to be advanced reactors?

In my opinion we should be spending more, not less, on our Nation's water infrastructure.

Senator Feinstein and I are working on as many paths as we can toward places for safe storage of used nuclear fuel.

We would like to be among the first in line when we present a bill to Senator McConnell and Senator Reid to put on the floor.

That's four, three, and two.

Governing is about setting priorities.

Six of them, six of those tons, have nothing to do with the Russian agreement.

I get the impression you think the idea of low-enriched uranium fuel for the Navy vessels isn't such a hot idea.

It seems to me that Senator Feinstein has raised some issues we need to pursue.

Can all of those 13 tons in South Carolina be sent to WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant), that is, in New Mexico, under current law?

So there are 13 tons of plutonium in South Carolina.

But we collected money from the commercial users of the locks. I mean, it is one of those unusual circumstances where the barge owners came and said would you please raise our taxes and use those taxes to improve the locks and the…

I would like to thank our witnesses for being here, and also Senator Feinstein, an exceptional co-chairman of this committee.

My own view is that we should proceed on all tracks at once toward a solution, to finding a place to put used nuclear fuel.

So we're talking about, according to those figures, saving a half billion dollars a year?

But basically so that it's not held out to be some big scientific mystery.

Doubling basic energy research, that is one of the most important things we could do.

My time is up, but it just seems to me that, from a common-sense point of view, that is the holy grail of clean energy research, because if you can actually figure out how to make a commercially viable use of capturing carbon and then…

I want to make sure the bill that Senator Feinstein and I and the committee members will be drafting reflects these additional savings so taxpayer money is wisely and effectively spent.

we ought to proceed on all these tracks at once.

We hope to move rapidly on the appropriations process this year.