The heritage, by the taxpayers. The intermediate and the low-level are paid for on site by each of the operators. The NWMO is mandated to be paid for by the operators of the nuclear sites, the owners of the nuclear sites. So Ontario Power Generation, Hydro-Québec, and New Brunswick Power are responsible for funding the operation of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and for putting aside the money, through their operations, to set up a fund that will pay for the development of the repository and for the long-term management of that. There is already an amount that is assigned by each of those operators towards the future management of that material.
As I said, we looked at it in the beginning as being a waste stream, which meant that we would only have costs associated with its long-term containment. We now look at it as a very valuable resource, and there will be, in my view, a revenue stream coming from the material that we have in the repository.
I think Mr. Henuset also identified a very important element that is about to be considered, and that is the reworking of the material. At the current time, because of the value of the deposits in northern Saskatchewan, we have been able to use only new fuel. But there will come a time, I think, because the prices now have moved considerably higher in uranium because of worldwide demand, that there will be an economic case made for us reworking that. So our reprocessing plant would probably go along with the geological repository, and the people who buy that fuel would pay for it.
So right now the ratepayers in Quebec, in New Brunswick, and in Ontario are the ones who will be paying for the material that is to be managed into the future.