Thank you to the university and to Tyne Engineering for these presentations.
I'm from the Northwest Territories, and we don't have any facilities in the north, I believe all of the north, including Nunavut and Labrador. We don't have any companies that provide these types of services or power or heat. We do have really high costs in the Northwest Territories, as you can imagine. Everything is a little more challenging; it's colder, and there's very little infrastructure. We are looking at ways to lower our costs for power and heat. It's really difficult. Almost every community in the north gets its power through diesel generators.
We've had some discussions on alternative energies and ways to do things. I've heard a couple of things about nuclear. First of all, there might be the possibility of running a line from the reactors or nuclear plants in Ontario to the north, but that's quite a way. I don't know if that's doable. I've also heard of small modular nuclear reactors that are safe and environmentally clean and use spent fuel.
I'm just wondering if either the university or you have ever looked at how nuclear could be utilized in the north.
Maybe you could start first.