united states was going to convert their weapons grade plutonium into steel, turning his sword into a plowshare, are you familiar with that questions mark -- with that? >> yes. >> in 2001, we entered into that agreement. are you aware of that? >> yes. >> in 2007, the construction of the facility begin to read you aware of that? >> yes. >> in 2010, there was an amendment to the original agreement. we reaffirmed their decision to turn our weapons grade plutonium into mock steel. are you aware of that? >> yes. >> are you aware that there is a plant in france? >> yes. >> and this is where you take weapons grade plutonium and diluted down to make it fuel commercially. >> one of the options, yes. >> that agreement was reaffirmed between us and russia in 2010. in 2014, the obama administration made a decision to stop that process and put it in coal standby. congress rejected that by funding $345 million for continued construction. here's my question to you. will you go to the savannah river site and come back until this committee how much of the plan is completed in your opinion? >> if confirmed, i wi