You can't keep the NRU going for much longer. That's for sure. It's old and its maintenance is going up as you keep this thing going. Like an old car, it's going to take more maintenance to keep it going.
What we have been proposing is replacing it entirely. You need to build a new multi-purpose research reactor that will support all of the missions that are currently going on at the NRU and be capable of supporting new missions as they become apparent. The NRU was built as a general purpose machine that would allow things to happen and develop around it, and the new facility has to be designed in the same way. It would then support commercial production of isotopes. It would support industrial research. It would support fundamental research. It would support reactor research for the next generation of nuclear reactors.
We're proposing keeping the NRU going not indefinitely but long enough so that you can get a new reactor in place to take over its functions. The idea of having McMaster as a backup is an extremely interesting one. I think that would take some of the pressure off the NRU operations while we get a new reactor in place.