In the potential sale of a company, having contracts on the books would be seen as something helpful. I know that the push to have the sale of CANDU reactors in Ontario was.... I would imagine, if I were a prospective buyer, that contracts on the books would be seen as helpful.
There are well over 100 projects right now, calls for proposals. I'm a little mystified as to why there are none that AECL holds in any of those contracts.