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I'm honored to be part of this concluding session on Maximizing Asset Value.

Thank you all for joining this year's Nuclear Energy Assembly.

It has been an exciting year for our industry—a year in which we have witnessed an unprecedented resurgence and revival of nuclear energy.

I'd like to share with you a very apt quote from one of our conference participants.

Twenty years ago this month, Ben Wattenberg—speaking of the public's rediscovery of a number of seemingly forgotten, but clearly good ideas—was quoted in an article in the old Washington Star as saying:

"There is nothing so powerful as a good idea whose time has come again."

That was in 1979, but it describes nuclear energy today.

A good idea whose time has come again.

As we approach the new century, we need to capture the power of that idea to ensure that nuclear energy—and its many benefits—never fade into the background of the American consciousness.

How do we do that? How do we capture our industry's future?