I hope you and the Administration will.

Well, and they are getting a chance to see the chairman of the Senate's Energy Committee, which is very important to Alaska.

Would you take a look at that cleanup? That is extremely important to us.

So what will happen in the next year? What is the status of the Small Reactor Program? Where are we?

I might just say that I am a fortunate chairman because the ranking members that I work with are both here today.

I have said in statement I would like to double energy research.

Moving on the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge, it is a one of a kind tool to discover how materials and biology work.

This was the announcement you made just recently.

The bottom line of that is one contributing aspect in some markets of the difficulty of economically operating a nuclear plant, much less building a new one, is the high subsidy for wind, allowing it to undercut nuclear.

Well, I believe you said it is not just who has the biggest computer. It is also who has the personnel to operate such.

Well, I will give you credit for being a consistent supporter of the small reactor research and support for certification and licensing activities, even though we have been disappointed with one of the grants, which was not your fault.

I think it is going to start next year. It is in the project engineering phase right now.

2022 is the target date for completion of the mercury treatment facility.

But then step two is to get it all out of Idaho, right?

So step one is to get everything into dry storage within 6 years.

I think the combination of the kind of accountability that Naval Reactors have for their reactors and this sort of continuous review... has made some good progress in terms of these big construction projects.

Well, I would join you. I read your op-ed, and those are very appropriate questions, important to our national security, and they cost a lot of money.

You still need a permanent repository to store your fuel.

Are you still on track to finish the facility under the $6.5 billion cost cap?

Have you learned anything from the Red Team review of the uranium project that you can apply to the MOX and the plutonium project in Los Alamos?

So 2017 would be the date, the estimated date, for 90 percent design completion.

It could go to Yucca Mountain or to one of the repositories that we're envisioning through the legislation Senator Feinstein and I are working on.

You mean the material arrives, and within 6 years, it's in a dry cask, is that what you're saying?

You also have an agreement with the State of Idaho to remove all those dry casks by 2035, is that right?

The nuclear Navy has not had a reactor accident resulting in a death.