Yes, thank you, Mr. Marston. That is an excellent question, but probably more appropriately put to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
However, I will say this. This is part of a worldwide effort to repatriate to countries of origin highly enriched fissile material so this material can be down-blended, it can be reprocessed, it can be done away with.
Professor Bunn has correctly pointed out the critical issue here for us are the stocks of fissile material. We need to ensure that terrorist organizations and terrorists are not able to get enough of this material to create a weapon that will do calamitous things in our major urban areas.
Are there concerns? I understand the concern. We understand the concerns. As a citizen, I would have the same concern.
Other countries are doing this. In the last year we have helped Mexico to repatriate highly enriched uranium from a research reactor in Mexico City back to the United States. We are assisting Vietnam to repatriate highly enriched uranium from a research reactor back to Russia.
At Chalk River there is this material. It costs the Canadian taxpayer a lot of money to keep it there. We don't have the technology to reprocess it in place at the moment. That technology and the facility exist in Savannah, Georgia. As part of our Nuclear Security Summit obligations, our Prime Minister undertook to return this material, as other countries are doing around the world, as in fact many other countries are doing around the world.
The modalities for doing that, how it gets from Chalk River to Savannah, Georgia, is not an issue that's our responsibility, but it certainly raises citizens' issues. That's an issue for CNSC, Transport Canada, and ultimately—