NRU, as it stands, is a large-core reactor in which you can do in-core research to study how materials behave in reactors. If you want to develop new nuclear reactor technology, you have to be able to run materials and fuels and understand how they respond. That's one mission that's done. You can put materials in to irradiate them to make medical isotopes. We have holes in the side of the reactor that are designed in, not just leaks, where you can draw out neutron beams; you can scatter off materials to study their properties, both for engineering and materials purposes, and also for fundamental research.
Developing all these technologies within one reactor means that you are serving a very large number of communities—industrial, fundamental, medical, and research—and it's a much more cost-effective way of doing things than building one reactor for each job.
We've really done a great job at NRU for the last 50 years with this very flexible design that is supporting projects that weren't even thought of when it was built. There was no medical isotope business. There was no neutron beam research. Engineering studies with neutron beams had never even been thought of. These are all things that evolved after we built it. It's a real triumph, a Canadian triumph.