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dr. mckenzie and dr. eisen hour to come forward. dr. eisenhower is the associate laboratory director of nuclear science at oak ridge laboratory and dr. mckenzie senior scientist at national resources defense council. dr. eisenhower, we will start with you if we may and i will ask each of you to summarize your testimony in about five minutes, if you will, which will give us time to consider -- to ask questions. and senator feinstein has an important appointment at 4:00 so we will conclude either by then or not long after that. dr. eisenhower. >> thank you, chairman alexander and ranking member feinstein. i am very pleased to participate in this panel today. at oak ridge national laboratory i'm privileged to lead a very talented group of scientists and engineers as we address scientific and technological challenges in both fission and fusion energy, nuclear iso types, nuclear modeling and simulation and nuclear security. our nuclear fission r & d efforts include light water reactor sustainability, accident tolerant fuels, used nuclear fue

dr. mckenzie. dr. eisenhower, associate lab director for nuclear science. dr. mckenzie, director of the nuclear program at the national resources defense council. after that, we'll have some questions. i'd like to make a brief opening statements. today's hearing, as i said, is our second oversight hearing. we discuss steps to take to ensure that carbon free nuclear power has a strong future in our country. our first hearing, we heard from the secretary about the challenges. we heard about research, a lot of which is being done at our national laboratories, including oak ridge. we heard senator whitehouse, who is concerned about climate change, tell us that in his view, it made no sense to close carbon and free reactors at the same time we're trying to deal with climate change. we also heard from senator greg and ceo of the clear path foundation, who gave us much of the same message and talked about the amount of innovation, 40 to 50 companies working on reactor concepts that would lower cost, increase safety, make better use of fuel management than today's react

dr. mckenzie and dr. eisen hour to come forward. dr. eisenhower is the associate laboratory director of nuclear science at oak ridge laboratory and dr. mckenzie senior scientist at national resources defense council. dr. eisenhower, we will start with you if we may and i will ask each of you to summarize your testimony in about five minutes, if you will, which will give us time to consider -- to ask questions. and senator feinstein has an important appointment at 4:00 so we will conclude either by then or not long after that. dr. eisenhower. >> thank you, chairman alexander and ranking member feinstein. i am very pleased to participate in this panel today. at oak ridge national laboratory i'm privileged to lead a very talented group of scientists and engineers as we address scientific and technological challenges in both fission and fusion energy, nuclear iso types, nuclear modeling and simulation and nuclear security. our nuclear fission r & d efforts include light water reactor sustainability, accident tolerant fuels, used nuclear fue

important roles in different ways in churchills a life, sir john anderson, mckenzie king and lord moran. our first speaker, dr. kevin ruane. he tells me that it rhymes with pain, if that's familiar to you. his latest book, churchill and the bomb and war and cold war track churchill's evolution as a nuclear statesman and has been described by andrew roberts as hugely impressive, gripping reading and the best book yet written on the nuclear churchill. so go buy your cope immediately. today dr. ruane will be looking at churchill's relationship with a man he described his book as unjustly unsung who led the british war time effort at churchill's request to build an atomic bomb. our second speaker began his career at english banking bridging to canada, sparked his interest in the relationship between winston churchill and mckenzie kick of canada. mr. riordan will speak on king and churchill, the subject of his superb 2012 book, winston churchill and mckenzie king, so similar, to different. our third and final speaker, dr. john maiter is a british import and scotsman no less, who served his adopted country, the uni

dr. hamilton? still doesn't work. - (captain) general, may i get him for you, sir? - captain mckenzie, i'll get him. excuse me. - i'll state it simply, doctor. cave people in my office and i was just ... doctor, are you listening to me? - oh, i am. i am. would you care to lie down on my couch for a few minutes? - stop treating me like a potential patient. - but you did say two cave people. - well, it's certainly not ozzie and harriet. anyway, captain mckenzie and lieutenant canfield insist- - oh, those two again. - yes, only this time they brought these cave people with them. - general, did it ever occur to you that they have hammered at you so often crept into my subconscious. i am interested in what crept into my office. - general, as a medical man with degress from john hopkins, harvard, and two years in austria, i can assure you most certainly they are not ozzie and harry. - the man is grunk. the woman is shad. dr. hamilton. - you doctor? (laughs) - what is so funny? - if you doctor, why you not wear dinosaur tooth around neck to keep away evil spirit? - maybe he wear dinosaur tooth under white

churchill, the sfbts his superb 2012 book "winston churchill and mckenzie king, so similar, so different." our third and final speaker, dr. john mather is a british import and scotsman no less, i should add, who served his adopted country the united states in the u.s. army for 30 years. he's distinguished physician whose been elected to several medical organizations including the royal society of medicine in the united kingdom. he's a medical pathographer and biographer and is an acknowledged expert on the medical issues that affected winston churchill. he will speak on a gentleman who was a diarist and a physician, lord morin who carried -- coordinated the care for churchill in the medical realm for the last 25 years of churchill's life. each of our speakers today will speak for about 25 minutes which will leave us time at the end for about 25 minutes worth of q&a. let's go to our first speaker. [ applause ] >> good morning. it is an un-churchillian hour. thank you, ted, for the introduction. thank you for giving me this platform. it's wonderful. it's a real honor. and thank you, as well, for lending me your ears for th