I believe so. I know there have been criticisms because people follow the money and the NWMO is funded by the nuclear industry, so people think there must be a conspiracy theory to cut things short. The NWMO itself functions as an independent body, and it's arm's length and has a very transparent process that started off by talking to Canadians and asking them how they would deal with nuclear waste going forward, including doing what we're doing now and building more and bigger surface storage facilities. The Canadians who attended the meetings spoke strongly in favour of a geological repository, taking into account new technologies that would come along. That was the adaptive phased management approach. We have a long time before the spent fuel from the SMRs is going to have to go into a repository, and all of that time will be spent working on the technology to be able to put it there.
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