Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Hawthorne and Ms. Carpenter, thank you very much for being here today.
Mr. Hawthorne, I appreciate the fact of your choosing not to speculate on what may or may not have happened. With the holdup, if we hadn't had a holdup before the last election, we would have had $650 million. Then we could have had that intelligent conversation about where it goes beyond that. So I tend to agree with you on that. Having been through the bill four times myself, and I think Mr. Tonks has been through it four times, we agree with your frustration.
I just want to follow up on a couple of points that were made. In the Japan scenario, as you laid that out, it was designed not for the size of earthquake they had, but if my understanding is correct, everything was operating properly after the earthquake. So therefore by definition the rods went in and everything was shutting down. I'm not asking you to speculate, but based on your history with nuclear plants, is it your opinion that if it had not been for the tsunami, things would probably have continued their shutdown process?