For the short term, I think you're probably looking at McMaster University to fill some gaps, and that's for the next few months while NRU is brought up.... I share the confidence of my colleagues here that the engineers at AECL will be able to bring NRU back into functioning. I have no doubt that those people know what they're doing and they will be able to make the needed repairs. They will make them for the long term. They're not going to just duct tape this thing. They are going to do a proper job. They want it to run through at least until 2016, so they have some time to build on a next-generation instrument, which is where we go after that. It has to be a new research reactor because you want to keep all the function that is present in NRU for the next 40 or 50 years. We have constantly used, upgraded, and added to what we can do there, and there's no sign that's stopping. Every major industrialized country has at least one research reactor facility. Some have multiple ones. In fact, China will be bringing its second one online in 2016, which is when we're actually going to shut down our only one. It doesn't seem to make sense that we should be falling behind in these things.
On June 16th, 2009. See this statement in context.