If the Canadian government has the will to continue as a nuclear supplier, then they have to focus on future technologies. The current system is pretty well commercially developed, and most of the services have been spun off into private companies. We're in a situation where if we want to advance our reactor systems beyond the current CANDU 6E, then we have to invest a fair bit of money into that. If the Government of Canada foresees having a long-term future in nuclear supply, then they're going to have to invest that money.
The emphasis should be on a future system, perhaps the synergy between CANDU and the generation IV-type reactor, particularly a fast breeder reactor, which would be able to recycle CANDU fuel and both extract that energy that's reserved in the fuel and greatly diminish these products that have to be disposed of.
The current situation seems to be that CRL is in a position where its site is being refurbished. It has a new management system, but it's not at all clear where and how [Technical difficulty--Editor] for them to carry on R and D [Technical difficulty--Editor]. We believe, here at Queen's, that unless there's a strong push from the Canadian government to want to advance and continue with nuclear technology, then what will happen is CRL will become a decommissioning site. That will then spin off to the rest of the country gradually. These programs [Technical difficulty--Editor] and so on will shut down if there's [Technical difficulty--Editor] industry.
We've built this up for the last 15 years, and now we're at a critical juncture as to where to go next [Technical difficulty--Editor].