America is going to lose a golden opportunity to create jobs and lead the world when it comes to clean energy.

unless the Government decides it wants to create some sort of permanent subsidy for what you're doing, which I think is very unlikely and which I would not be inclined to support.

The point of not having a storage plan is that we don't have a plan at all for nuclear power.

They estimate that a single reactor of about 125 megawatts would power the entire complex there.

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.

Now, it's unlikely--and we can ask the others here when they come--that the new SMRs would benefit from that because under the terms of the law they'd have to be under construction by 2014 and in operation by January 1, 2021.

H-Canyon is very much a national asset.

I commend President Obama on his approach to this.

I think this hearing is premature. Instead of considering new nominees, we ought to be abolishing this commission.

The more oversight hearings we have with the Commissioners, the better.

The tragedy in Japan should serve as a clear warning that we can't be complacent when it comes to nuclear safety.

We need to recycle used nuclear fuel. That means there will be even less of it.

We can safely store for 30, 40, 50, 60 years onsite the spent fuel.

In adversity lies opportunity.

We are going to make sure that every precaution is being taken to safeguard our people from a similar nuclear incident.

We want to not only establish that culture of safety, we have established it, we want to strengthen it.

It is important that we have hearings so that Americans know that 20 percent of all our electricity comes from 104 nuclear plants.

It is important for Americans to know that there has never been a death at a civilian reactor in the United States.

In other words, clean air for us means good jobs.

they won't be able to get it unless we have a strong national Clean Air law

I think the more people understand and hear about nuclear power, the more confidence they have in them.

I would like to suggest we have more hearings on oversight of nuclear power.

TVA is a Federal utility, it ought to be a model for the rest of the country.

We need new ones for that purpose, and to expand.

I want to congratulate the President for three excellent nominations.