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Thank you, and I want to thank Don Hintz for that warm welcome, and Senator Mike Crapo for his thoughtful views on nuclear energy. The efforts of Senator Crapo and many of his Senate colleagues are helping to ensure that nuclear energy will continue to play a vital role in the nation’s energy and environmental future.

This is a very exciting time to be part of the nuclear energy industry. Sure, we have our challenges—but one of the biggest challenges we face is also our greatest opportunity: Communicating to policymakers, the media and the public about our industry’s remarkable achievements … like the security and emergency preparedness programs at our nuclear power plants.

The nuclear industry leads the commercial sector in both these areas. We are head and shoulders above all others … including those with a comparable, or maybe even greater, safety risk.

Our critics, as always, paint quite a different picture. Criticism of both our security and emergency preparedness programs has forced us to respond—to communicate about the tremendous efforts we make to keep our plants not only operating safely, but safe from outside interference as well. And we don’t stop there. Our industry is the gold standard in preparing for potential emergencies.