dr. jean chu holds a doctorate in philosophy from oxford university and above and beyond that, she served as chief of staff for two stanford university presidents as well as dean of admissions. my god it would be interesting to hear what you talk about at night. >> all i know for sure is she would not have admitted me. i must say, your service is very much appreciated. but beyond that, the panel probably doesn't realize this. but yucca mountain has for all these decades essentially been in my district. and the early days, it strikes me that unless we learn from this most recent history we're bound to repeat the disaster that yucca mountain. i was fooling around with a figure earlier thinking that we spent something in the neighborhood of $9 billion in the yucca mountain catastrophe, it's closer to $14 billion as staff tells me. and in connection with that, in the early days of yucca, all of the politicians who want to solve this problem purportedly were supportive of yucca mountain as the location. especially when it was producing jobs in the local economic community. and then you move fo