Rob, you are coming up here, too. We are arranging ourselves. Welcome to the Wilson Center. I am jane harman, the the prest and ceo. I am a recovering politician. Happy to be a recovering politician but its not an easy job. Heading this place is an absolute joy because this place leverages Woodrow Wilson two presence, two passions which were scholarship and policy. Thats the intersection of the book were going to talk about today. And its just my pleasure to introduce this and introduce a friend of many of hours, rocket man. Ill explain why called him rocket man. And that is because theres a movie, has anyone seen the movie, the elton john movie . Dan and i sat next to each other recently at the elton john movie, which is great, recommend it. And dance at a written this book and it would want to come to the wilson sent and talk about the book. Rocket man is here and he will talk about this book. He asked as i think emily knows, you got that cheat sheet writer, you all memorized it with
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order we are meeting to examine an issue that effectively weve been at a stalemate for quite some time. What we should do with used nuclear fuel accumulating at the Nuclear Reactors. At a starting point we should recognize that Nuclear Energy is an important part of our countrys electric generation. I believe its a vital part of our mix. The large reactors not landscape provide reliable admissions free power to communities across our country. Our Nations Nuclear industry is critically important but it also faces a number of challenges and one that impacted the first reactors began operation and Nuclear Waste disposition. Beginning with the passage of the Nuclear Waste policy act of 1982 congress attempted several times to address the backend of the fuel cycle. In an effort to resolve an earlier stalemate the federal government was supposed to begin taking title to use fuel and moving it to a repository at Yucca Mountain in nevada beginn
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Thats a linking up a new data highway in space its super speed rail had us coped with natural disasters there on. The glass trying to stop the coral reefs from dying go underwater in billys and look at how conservationists are working to keep them alive. And welcome. Good to have your company. We begin in russia where firefighters backed by the countrys air force a struggling to contain last fire in siberia thats the area that the area that is ablaze is growing with some 45000. Already affected officials said theyve given up their efforts in some of the most remote areas in the hardest hit province of clustering ask residents actual king on. These crews are fighting a losing battle about the vast expanse of disappear in forest they qualify as that summer under the canopy. Helicopters also ferry and reinforcements to combat the smoldering fire on the ground. The difficult thing with these fires is that they cover huge areas and the hard to reach the most effective method is a comprehens
What we should do with used nuclear fuel thats accumulating at our Nations Nuclear reactors. As a starting point, we should recognize Nuclear Energy is an important part of our countrys electric generation. I believe it is a vital part of our mix. Large reactors that dot the landscape provide reliable power to communities across the country. The Nuclear Industry is critically important, but also faces a number of challenges and one that has impact since the first reactors began operation is Nuclear Waste disposition. Beginning with passage of the Nuclear Waste policy act of 1982, congress has attempted several times to address the back end of the fuel cycle, in an effort to resolve earlier stalemate, the federal government was supposed to begin taking title to use fuel and moving it to a repository at yuca mountain in nevada beginning in 1988. The governments failure to deliver on this promise is costing taxpayers up to 2 million per day. This hearing is an opportunity to consider the