Thank you for your question. Unfortunately, the NRC is not working anymore in the area of nuclear physics or nuclear energy, not since 1952. All our work capacity was transferred to AECL.
I know that nuclear energy is coming back under more public scrutiny. There's more interest because nuclear energy has no greenhouse gas emissions. There's a lot of work going on around the world to try to improve how much fuel and how much energy we can extract from the fuels—uranium, plutonium, and other fuels—and to recycle as much as we can, so that the residue we'll have to face with nuclear energy will be reduced at its maximum, or maybe that the longer half-life isotopes will be reduced, so that we'd be facing only shorter half-life isotopes, which are easier to get rid of or to control.