Public Health Labor & Environment Subcommittee - House and Senate

In support of. General manner. Thank you Mr. At. It is I'd like to take just a minute if I may Mister chairman I'd like to. Mention a few people that have been very helpful in our pursuit of information and knowledge on the part of the department of energy and environment. Thank you chase who work for DOE has been very instrumental in helping us get meeting set up to make sure that we're talking to the right people and I'd also like to thank Mr Petri and Lisa who is a communications person there for working with us in providing us with introductions to the other members throughout the DOD so you want to make sure that their name Commission today because we really appreciate all the efforts to a given us in assisting us in getting the information we need to continue meeting the requirements of act 1092. One other thing there has been communication with our congressional. The staff on this because it will take their support and their help to to make this successful so that's been ongoing as well. Representive Coleman you're recognized for a question. Okay when you recycle these fuel rods. Do you recycle process that they can be used again at nuclear one they have to go to a different use. You can recycle the rides. By the customer. So if you have a back to rising you want to produce them for a nuclear one operation you can recycle them toward that purpose if you wanted to recycling toward a the company of a bill gates's company fractions using his name liberally there you can provide produce those uranium right for instance instead of asking for uranium rights we can actually recycle the rods from nuclear one. And add some returning to home to meet the same requirements. With the exact same Rajit they would buy from somebody else. Brash so yes. Did I answer that question right okay because. Follow up. How would be the what will be the problem of just do it on site then right close to nuclear one or their customer enough for that or is it be better to. Do it somewhere else. You can recycle or they can use them again because of the transportation and much trouble would be to have your recycling area in the presence of a mobile one it's just if the scale of a Kanemi basically so imagine you have to the steel mills in Blytheville you have recycling facilities or gathering facilities around the state. It would be cost prohibitive to have a steel mill each one of those landfill sites so what you do is you gather up all the steel metal from other scrapyard and you take it to one location. To read to read and re melted down and to do root development still. Shell it's just Excalibur economy and costs so you have one recycling facility they gather material from all the other locations for recycling is just makes it less expensive more efficient. Good question. I have a question about the timeline I mean. Where we what's a realistic expectation of of how long this would. It's a good question yes and it depends on what you're going to build I guess you know currently it takes an R. C. go through their process of reviewing and quarter dryer things happen utilities have to approve any kind of whether to coal fired plant or nuclear plants so there's that process. What we focus that is we will one of the problems of building. A nuclear facility and it taking 10 to 12 years and it never meeting the schedule or the budget because there's regulatory part in dinner construction part and. They're always different so what we want to do is we want to build one. Reactor and you for 350 megawatts as of SMR which is a small modular reactor. What you build it you have a reproved tested and proved initially I would like this design this design works we approve everything on it and then you just get you cookie cutter I'll and so if I need 700 megawatts I put to these together 2 modules together if I need 1400 I put 4 modules together so you try to. Take are you got all the safety standard all the precautions in place you've done it once you're not changing the design any and so then you can reduce the amount of time. Of building or putting in place more reactors. If I was if everything was in the commercial world I think I can have a facility recycling facility a manufacturing facility in offering plan 3 years. But what stops all that is. The regulatory side of it that requires the reviews etcetera. But we're working we were working with parties today to start again of finding ways to. Make the system more efficient and regulatory process shall. In 5 years would be a good gas for us at this point. One of Porter's is there's a number of funding our our request for proposal with deadlines are in the springs on the front end of the process for accessing the money it's a shorter time frame. And of course you know if they were to announce award of a substantial amount of money or that would put the onus on everybody to. Get to work on getting the policy right. So would deliver and and. Thank you no one wants me with the precise deadlines due process. It should be resolved in months. What Mr chairman that's a good question you asked but at this point it's it's really hard to come up with a solid long term timeline because we're still kind of in the exploratory stage I would say in as Mister Thomas says if money was released. For a proposed project then we wouldn't need a timeline developed but at this point in in till those steps replying for money. Presenting a plan to get that money and then getting the authorization the real hard to set up any kind of a plan and timeline other than an estimate. Understood. Thank you. To have a any other questions. Anything else you all like to an. Thank you very much thank you all for coming. Any other business. Meetings adjourned.