thank you very much. >> thank you bob alvarez. i should mention he is also currently a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies. he will be available for immediate interviews at the conclusion of the session. we have reserved about a half hour for you to quiz our experts and we will save questions until all of the panelists are done. next, we have kevin kamps. he is a nuclear waste specialist with the organization beyond nuclear. he also works with a number of other organizations, and has been following these issues for a good deal of time. he is going to talk about some of the difficulties with storage options and also about some alternatives, for those of you who remember bonanza called haas. >> thank you bob. i apologize in advance, i'm going to have to skip some slides. bob has done a great job on the pool risks. i will try to hit the main points during my talk. one is that we oppose the current risky pool storage, but the inadequate dry cast storage. that is why we are calling for hardened on-site storage, a signifi

[applause] >> thank you, bob alvarez. bob, i should mention -- is currently a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies and he like all of our panelists will be available for media interviews at the conclusion of this session. we also have reserved about half hour for you to quiz our experts up here and we will save questions until all of the panelists are done. next we have kevin camps. kevin is a nuclear waste specialist with the organization beyond nuclear. he also works with a number of other organizations and has been following these issues for a good deal of time. he's going to talk about some of the difficulties with storage options and also about some alternatives for those of you who remember bonanza, the 20th century tv program. >> i apologize in advance i will have to skip through slides, but bob has done a great job. i will fly through some images. we oppose not only the current risky pool storage but also the inadequate dry cast storage and that's why we're calling for hardened on site storage, a sign