Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
I thought I should open by saying who I am, since I'm appearing as a private individual. I'm a professional engineer with about 40 years of experience in the nuclear safety business, nine years or so working on pressurized water reactors and the last 31 years working on CANDU and Canadian reactors with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, with whom I was a director general for 11 years.
I did produce a short statement that I could read out to you on why MAPLE didn't work, or I could just answer questions, as you think fit.
Since retiring, one of the tasks I have been engaged in is to sit on an advisory panel, with a number of very distinguished retired professors, that advises AECL's board of directors on its research and development program. I should just make that clear.
I could outline in a brief manner why the MAPLE reactor didn't work, if that would be of use to the committee.