I will do that gladly.
You may recall in budget 2010 the government provided an investment of $35 million over two years to try to develop non-reactor-based sources of medical isotopes for Canadians. That funding supported four projects: two cyclotron and two linear accelerator projects. They're two different technologies, cyclotron and accelerator, both in the nuclear technology world, but none are reactor based, and indeed both technologies would not create the kind of high-level radioactive waste that there is with the existing sorts of medical isotope supply.
Those projects advanced the science, advanced the technologies, and budget 2012 then announced a further investment, $17 million over two years, to be awarded on a competitive basis, to try to bring these technologies to the point of commercialization. As you know, the government has been clear about its goal to phase out production of medical isotopes at the Chalk River site by 2016. That is not an economic proposition for Canada, and it's not a good use of facilities over time. New technologies that can provide the services and the medical isotopes for Canadians may come from some of these technologies that can be distributed across Canada on a smaller scale, closer to the patients, closer to the needs.
We're very encouraged by the response we had to the request for proposal that we issued in June 2012, and quite encouraged by the prospect of having some solid proposals to bring these technologies, if not to market, very close to market, within the timeframe.