I think nuclear power is, and I have said this before the Japan accident, something we ought to have more oversight of.

But probably half our coal plants do not have that----

Our State has no road debt, none. The reason is that when we want to build a road, we raise the money and pay for it.

How important is the United States' ability to be among the leaders in the world in supercomputing to such programs as you are working on today to help us understand how to keep nuclear power plants safe?

Dr. Moniz, if the Nation can't agree on a single repository, what makes you think it can agree on more than one for consolidated sites?

Atomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest possible tests and the impact on people and the planet has been small.

I want to compliment the President. When he started his administration I was afraid he was going to lead us on a national windmill policy instead of a national energy policy.

I want to ask you two more questions. The first is about radiation.

The effect of the reactors. These are his comments.

I wonder if Dr. Lyons agrees, from the point of view of the DOE, that used nuclear fuel can be safely stored onsite for up to 100 years.

The safety record for the generation of nuclear power in the United States really couldn't be better.

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The mission of the Blue Ribbon Commission is to explore a wide range of options for management of used fuel.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. Jaczko, continuing the chairman's comments, most of the problems we read and hear about in Japan from the reactors comes basically from the inability to cool some of the used fuel rods. Is that right?

It is important that we talk about nuclear power.

Those of us who support nuclear power as a part of the mix of electricity generation in the United States, and for the world, ought to be among the first to ask questions about what can we learn from what happened in Japan, about the…

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We simply learn how to honestly ask questions and continuously improve what we are doing.

It is a very onerous and time-consuming process, and people are often held in limbo for a long period of time.

I am opposed to that. I think we need a low cost clean energy strategy.

I look forward to working on clean air in this Congress with Senator Carper and others.

I'm very hopeful the Administration will favorably consider that.

Senator Hatch, who is here today, is leading an effort to develop legislation that would permit that to happen.

We can use those new inventions and technologies to improve the cleanliness of our air without adding significantly to our costs.

The damage would be that it would make it harder and more expensive to create jobs.