Thank you very much for the opportunity to comment here.
I don't think it can overstated that a good portion of the waste that we have today, as I said earlier, is exposed. It is exposed to the elements. When most folks think of nuclear waste, they think of it in sealed containers at nuclear power plants. The vast majority of our waste, about 500,000 cubic metres, is soil. It is in the soil, and it is in old building materials, World War II-era buildings that are far closer to the Ottawa River than the proposed NSDF.
The desire and the design of the NSDF is to reduce the risk to the public, as Ms. Vickerd said, to our workforce and to the environment. Frankly, I think it's probably the right answer—it is the right answer to go forward.
Thank you.