Natural Resources committee  That is correct. We have put in a protocol for proactive disclosure to try to inform all agencies, us, and the public of any particular issue that would be of concern.

Natural Resources committee  I'll ask Mr. Elder to elaborate, but they are actually there, observing this and talking to them. They are involved in the various committees that are making decisions, etc. So for anything that's done outside the normal routine, our inspectors are there and involved in it automa

Natural Resources committee  They have now compared, I think, about five countries--France, Germany, Spain.... They're doing the U.S. next year. So it's one of those services that the IAEA instituted to benchmark a regulatory framework, one country against another country, and you learn from each other, whic

Natural Resources committee  I have to disagree. I feel very independent, just so you know. I and the commissioners—

Natural Resources committee  —feel very independent. I have absolutely no reason to believe that the government would interfere with our business, because they can't.

Natural Resources committee  The only thing they can do is remove me from the presidency, but I'm still a commissioner, a permanent commissioner.

Natural Resources committee  I'm talking about the commission business. The commission business is totally independent of the government.

Natural Resources committee  That's right, but I'm only one commissioner out of seven. In fact, in some of these decisions I don't even vote. It's the independent commissioner who actually renders the independent decision, and that stands. As an aside, the Obama administration came in and replaced the chair

Natural Resources committee  No. We continuously, on a daily basis, monitor activities on site through our staff. Anything untoward is reported instantly.

Natural Resources committee  No.

Natural Resources committee  Not really. This is a very complicated machine. The point here is that whatever happened did not have a safety impact on the population, the workers, or the environment.

Natural Resources committee  This time. And last time.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  It's just stored there, until they decide whether they want to reprocess it or dispose of it in any other way.

Natural Resources committee  The last time they went through the normal kind of treatment.