they informed the nrc, nrc sent an inspection team, you all followed up with a special inspection team. you've had public meetings. you've issued a special inspection report, came down for another public meeting. in june of last year progress energy, the owner then, stated their intent that they intended to repair crystal river, and they were proceeding with engineering and construction plans dealing with insurance issues and had stated an intent to return the plant to service in 2014. since that time just here earlier in the month progress energy merged with duke energy. and reports following that merger appear to make the future of the crystal river unit three plant a little more uncertain. it appears that the nrc's position has been that crystal river can be repaired safely. is that correct in your opinions, and have any of you traveled to the site? >> well, as you might suspect i haven't had the opportunity to travel to crystal river yet, but i intend to learn more about the situation at crystal river, and i'll ask my colleagues to comment. >> i had the opportunity to visit crystal

the industry and the nrc.the nrc has to demand for information of everything to dsopowcdfogwu hi and i think they believe to the smartest thing we can do to deal with the ac power has actually have a flexible concept wherewe hve is alrnatwafgots se. teto p n en we have offsite capabilities to calm and enhance that over time for the long-term. >> diesel generators on trucks to bring power and a bigi whe atsob pmont. diesel driven hookups into the vessel in other places that we know we can get to that if we couldn't get a one-way become in another way. we learned this after 9/11. after 9/11 o ofh orn s heelaad land? what was different was the way we make everything pretty rigid. to get the water for yor. he didn't know where the plane fuouo.hit heln ve e icu towa flexible. we basically did that from the standpoint of dealing with the aircraft. but we didn't do it as robustly looking at other aspects, nor did we do the king of multiple units. so actiotaken a le led from 9/1an to bet explaining it dramatically. tw

we have a recent waste confidence decision from the nrc that unfortunately has been legally contested and that brings at least to suspect whether or not we have a sufficient progress on a repository program. >> thank you. mr. fettus, you recommend removing the exemptions of radioactive pollutants from state environmental authority. why would giving states more authority over a nuclear waste site making consent-based siting more likely? and what does the wipp experience tell us about state authority? >> first, in answering this question, i want to respond briefly to senator carper's admonition that these things are seen as dumps. they are. this is some of the most toxic and dangerous waste that will be radioactive for a million years. this is a difficult thing to manage. it's why the scientific consensus for over half a century has been deep geological disposal. this is a difficult matter with extraordinarily dangerous waste. that said, i am informed by my work for senator udall when he was attorney general of new mexico. the only meaningful time that states felt in any measure comfort

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>> our fuel is licensed by the nrc for both storage and transport and it's ready to go when the federal government comes to pick it up. >> well, the suggestion, and you mentioned the language in the appropriations bill, which comes from an impulse to -- these things take a while. i mean, the stalemate's been 25 years. it takes congress a little while to pass any kind of legislation. so our thought with the appropriations bill was can we take a step or two while we work out the comprehensive piece or legislation? which would then take over the whole process. do you think that's reasonable? >> yes, we do. we think that there are near-term actions that could be taken. i think, as was mentioned earlier, before you could

commission's recommendation that a new site independent safety standard be developed by epa and the nrc. i think the final element that was critical in my judgment was the fact that, that this program had assured funding in the sense that the senator -- the senior senator from the state of new mexico served on both the appropriate and authorizing committees. that gave some assurance that adequate funding would be available to operate the facility safely after it had been built. we can't rely on that good luck happening again because the statistical probability of that happening is low. this is a key reason why the commission has recommended that we need to change at a minimum the way that we classify the fee receipts in such a way that when they're propered they don't have to compete against other discretionary spending priority. and the situation in terms of spending those moneys looks more like how we fund the nuclear regulatory commission. the fees offset appropriations and congress is not faced with the dilemma of needing to cut other programs in order to fund something that's being

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