Natural Resources committee  If you read the AECL documentation, you are forced to have at least $650 million, otherwise you're left out of the international community and it's total disaster for nuclear power.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I think you're right: it could be done right, the way you explained it. But one little thing one has to remember is that we're supposedly all in favour of sustainable development. AECL is also in favour of sustainable development. The uranium reserves are not that large. The

Natural Resources committee  Haida Gwaii—well, almost “hideaway”. At any rate, west of Prince Rupert it's a 350-megawatt wind farm that will be in construction next year, expanding to 15,000 megawatts. It's really great. The fact is that right now the increases in solar power and wind power are far more t

Natural Resources committee  Perhaps I may reply with two aspects. One, to improve the bill there was a suggestion by a deputy to prohibit the retubing. That would be a great step forward. You would find lots of people at AECL who would be very much in favour of this. Just read their documentation. Secondl

Natural Resources committee  May I add something? What's even more dangerous here is the concept of cross-border liability. If there's an accident at Pickering that dumps a lot of radioactivity on the United States, what do you think will happen? There are lots of lawyers in the U.S. Congress, and lots of l

Natural Resources committee  Can I reply to your question? You know, Bécancour is right on the St. Lawrence River, which is a maritime seaway. If you look at what terrorists are doing around the world, they're in the habit lately of filling boats with explosives, exploding them, and destroying a whole lot o

Natural Resources committee  May I add something to this? Well, water is cheap; it's easy to build a swimming pool. But hell, if just an airplane falls on it, with benzene and everything else leading to a big fire, such as at the World Trade Center in 2001, the water goes away, the radioactive waste burns

Natural Resources committee  Wow, that would be just wonderful if you could do that. That would be just wonderful. If you read the AECL documentation, you become convinced that the new reactor designs are so much better. Everybody in the international nuclear physics community says the same thing. The old

Natural Resources committee  About the expansion of nuclear power, the 2006 latest AECL report is very proud to say that since 1990, AECL has contracted for seven CANDU reactors for international customers, more than any other power reactor vendor in the world. So since 1990, seven reactors amounting to some

Natural Resources committee  As I said, there's a lot of talk in the AECL documentation about being in harmony with the United States. Well, in the United States they're talking about a $9 billion limit on liability. That's a little more serious. One point that I make in the resumé that I passed around is t

Natural Resources committee  Okay, I just wanted to make sure. I find that in formulating this new Bill C-5, there are two important aspects. One of them is compensation for damages suffered, and the other is the expansion of nuclear power. The nuclear power industry has been saying that they need this b

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the invitation, honourable members. I hold a BSc in physics from the University of Montreal. I received a PhD in nuclear physics at Yale University back in 1966. I then worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey for 21 years, with a three-year leave of ab