Thank you, Chair, and thank you to our witnesses.
I have to say we've been sitting through a number of days of this testimony, and I don't think any of us on this committee are nuclear scientists. I don't have a degree anywhere close to nuclear level. I'm shocked by the testimony I'm hearing today concerning what the reality was around the MAPLE project.
Let me start with you, Dr. Smith. This is obviously--I don't know if personal is the right word--a personal issue for you. You spent a great deal of your career around this project. Is that correct?