I would like to make one thing clear. The approved project does not exceed international regulatory requirements, which is what you have suggested. The scenario developed and assessed by Commission staff looked at worst case situations. So, I would just like to stress that the Commission took very stringent steps and held Bruce Power to account.
We developed hypothetical scenarios. The first focused on non-fixed, loose matter inside the generators. We considered that all the material could potentially be released.
In the second scenario, the casing around the steam generator failed to prevent nuclear matter from escaping. In other words, there was a leak situation.
The third scenario focused on the ships transporting the generators. The ship is specially designed for the transportation of irradiated nuclear fuel. Therefore, it is designed to carry more highly irradiated nuclear matter than that contained in the steam generators. The vessel was designed to carry irradiated fuel, plutonium and reactor fuel.
The Commission considered all these issues. People have based their conclusions on one single sentence in our report. We were transparent in our submission of the assessment to the Commission. It is available to anyone. We concluded that as far as the casing was concerned, the substance was fixed inside, the steam generators were sealed and there was therefore no risk of matter leaking into the environment. Consequently, we deemed the project to be safe.