We are trying to really take care of prior mismanagement back when the environment was not even considered.

all options ought to be on the table.

It would be my concern if you have a Safety Board--again, I think we are all concerned about safety--but if they are operating outside any kind of cost-benefit analysis.

I think it is easy in a situation like this to come into a hearing with a bias one way or the other.

So, from what you have seen as an Inspector General in the Federal Government, do you think the Federal Government--what is the likelihood that we would be able to hire those 20,000 very specialized employees and be able to pull this thing…

To me, that makes sense.

The problem we are facing here with cleaning up the nuclear waste from our weapons programs is literally a once in the span of human history problem.

Security clearances, we have clearances for individuals, but we also have them for contractors and for facilities, correct?

There is literally no standard, no guidance for what circumstances require a clearance. None.

How do you develop a process that actually works?

If we could apply these standardized type of processes across the government, I think we would be in a far better place.