What should have taken perhaps six years took nine or 12. Often, you had a completed plant just sitting there while you discussed some of the issues being raised.

What utilities are looking for and the public surrounding those plants are looking for is a clear signal that the fuel is eventually going to move from those sites. Absent that, there may be some reluctance to continue to pursue the applications.

We've taken a lot of applications, ... Since then, out of the 80 applications, we've interviewed six of those. We do not plan to lower our standards for being an officer.

Six holes in one? ... I have nine, but I've been playing a lot more years than he has. I'd say the young man is a little bit ahead of the curve.

I think they had about 1,200 inquiries into the program and they had 225 completed applications. It took three to four weeks to complete the application to get in. Everything came together pretty quickly.

If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.