Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'll be sharing my time with Mr. Anderson.
Through you, to our witnesses, thank you for coming today and also for the updates that you have been giving to the stakeholders in the surrounding communities. The people in Chalk River, Deep River, Pembroke, and Petawawa feel that the NRU and the work that AECL does is part of their community. They feel some responsibility, not only because of the workers but also because we have family members there who are dependent on cancer diagnosis. That's what I'd like to focus on, as opposed to the cost or the politics of it, but the people. This is why it's such an urgent matter. Even cancer patients who are not impacted by the shortage are still worried about it because of the complexity involved, and it causes extra anxiety for them even though the NRU did develop the cobalt treatments, which patients are receiving in good order.
You mentioned and showed us how the repairs are complex and that there is little margin for error and that a lot of practice welding takes place before you actually weld in the vessel.
Can you tell us what kinds of errors you're guarding against and the consequences of different kinds of errors, and how the proximity to the NRX has been of benefit, if it has? Has this process we are going through, this learning, fixing, delaying process, been helpful to other older reactors going through the same process? Because they do help patients, including Canadian patients.