Commission. This subcommittee and clean air and Nuclear Energy is chaired by senator Shelley Moore capital of west virginia. [inaudible] i would like to welcome all of our witnesses today. A particular welcome to the alumnus of the committee, mr. Merrifield to tell me he began here 1986, i think. I appreciate you returning. As each witness knows you have five minutes for an oral statement and that we will take questions. We are here today to examine and exciting topic and that is advanced Nuclear Reactors. While Nuclear Issues are somewhat new to me, i am learning these technologies have the potential to make Great Strides in advancing Nuclear Technology. This is a topic that many of us are very interested in because Nuclear Energy is an essential component for all the above energy policy. Our Current Nuclear plants provide clean, safe, reliable, and Affordable Energy to power our economy while providing thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in benefits to local communities. They m
By 7 a. M. Temperatures constituting scything right where they are right now. Noontime middle 60s. The exception is some of the hills at 0 degrees. The manadanocks as well will struggle to get quite as high. Increasing clouds and we start with sunshine now and will end up being mostly cloudy by 5 p. M. One and two showers popping on radar. Highs highs making it 64 up to 70 degrees. 70s will be real hard to find later today. Who is most likely to rise to that high coming up. Over to Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic. Julie, where is this latest accident. Julie shiri, the latest accident is in dedham at 135 west street. As you can see on the map, roll is so far reasonable and not having extreme backups and hopefully will have to cleared soon so wont cause a problem. Slow spot on 93 through the cloverleaf. Average peed of 23 Miles Per Hour. Saugus for all your north shore commuters. Volume starting to increase as the morning unfolds. The live drive times. 18 minutes from the brai
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 16. The nomination is confidence. Is confirmed. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the grigsby nomination. Who yields time . Mr. Leahy madam president . Madam president . The presiding officer the senator vermont. Mr. Leahy madam president , on the griggsby nomination, i have a statement which i will include in the record as though read, and i yield back all time. The presiding officer without objection. The question is on the nomination. All in favor say aye. All opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately be notified of the senates action. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a v
Here is the front page of the wall street journal this morning. Iran agrees to outline of deal inside the wall street journal. What each side agreed to. The accord calls for ran to reduce the number of installed centrifuges to 6,104 from about 19,000. Of those just 5,060 will be used for the next ten years. Iran must also refrain from enriching uranium over 3. 67 purity, the level suitable for power plants but not weapons for 15 years. And allow International Inspectors regular access to all Nuclear Facilities as well as their supply chains. Those are some of the conditions that iran must agree to. And the u. S. And its partners will begin to lift many sanctions against iran within four to 12 months of a final accord depending on how quickly iran implements procedures. And snap back sanctions if iran is found a range of sanctions penalizing domestic and Foreign Countries for establishing economic and financial ties with iran. Those are some of the conditions in the agreement. Another a
Moved forward, we can now report there are a total of 92 crew members that have been identified as having some level of involvement. That means other participating in the cheating or knowing something about it and the standing of and reporting it. In an abundance of caution as we follow these new leads we have temporarily decertified these 92 crew members, and there are no longer on alert at this time. Lieutenantgeneral wilson and just a few minutes will discuss police held is rearranging his impact what i want to reassure his that i remain confident to our bases last week even more confident in this safety, reliability, effectiveness of the Nuclear Mission. I remain this way for basically the same reasons as i reported to all of you two weeks ago. The differences i went and saw it for myself one week ago. Just to recap, there are multiple checks and balances in the system, and there are a variety of ways that we ensure the reliability and safety, not the least of which is the fact tha