Thank you for the question.
This very question was significantly dealt with during the three-year study we conducted between 2002 and 2005. In that study, we were required by our federal mandate to look at the options you describe there.
But when we consulted with Canadians and with experts, we felt that the plan we put forward for the adaptive phased management best met the values and expectations of Canadians for, number one, long-term safety and security. A deep geological repository would best meet that. Even in a scenario where recycling takes place and some economic decision is made in the future to retrieve that and reprocess, you would still be left with high-level waste.
Secondly, the idea that we leave this material here in the hope that in some future time there will be a technology that somehow deals with this in a more elegant way was not something Canadians were willing to wait for. They believe that we have an obligation to take action now, but the plan we have is such that if that technology came along, we would be able to adapt to that technology. So this is a take action now approach, with the ability to adapt as and when such technologies did become economically viable or environmentally preferable.