No. Safety was not the driver for discontinuing the MAPLE. Lack of understanding of how it operates was.
Again I come back to people believing that science is a slam-dunk--you know, you can do this, and it's no problem. This was never done in that small a configuration with AECL.
Yes, it's surprising that they couldn't figure it out, absolutely, but that's the problem with science. You sometimes don't get it.