an atom bomb, is immense. in other words, it s 30 times more for an atom bomb for each little bit of uranium as compared to the uranium you re using inside of a power plant. joining us now, republican representative tom price of georgia, representative price, welcome back to the program. dr. william calvin. professor, university of washington. expert in alternative energy. and nuclear energy and climate change project manager from concerned scientists ellen banko. it s a pleasure to have all three of you. thank you so much for the time. calvin, on the science front, i want to go through some of the most basic fears. one fear is, the water boils off. the rods break for whatever reason. and now i just have all these uranium pellets inside the nuclear reactor. i get effectively a meltdown. because there s nothing to stop that nuclear reaction. what would be the worst case scenario in a situation like that? a slight heat in the basement basically.
georgia will significantly decrease our energy costs. i think we can do it safely. i think certainly the scientists there mentioned how you preserve the safety of all of this. there are over 100 nuclear reactors in the united states working right now. safely. we ought to continue to expand this, because it is safe and clean energy. ellen, one point that you made when you saw this news was this looks like pork. and understandably, you can look and see the lobbying money from some of the power generation companies to the obama campaign, and then you can see the loan guarantees coming back to them. is that do you look at this purely as pork, or do you see some merit to it, maybe just the allocation as to who gets the contract, is riddled with traditional political favor trading? i m not sure i think from a i m going to ellen, sorry, guys. i don t take the politics out of anything that goes on in