The CNSC's mandate is clearly about the regulation of nuclear energy during the full life cycle of nuclear: from mining and milling, through processing, power plants and medical isotopes, to waste management and decommissioning. We don't have a mandate as a proponent for any type of technology. We review the technologies that come to us to ensure that, whatever we recommend to the commission, we have used a scientific basis and had a robust review of full and complete information. Then, if we're not ready to recommend it to the commission because we don't think it's safe, we will not, but we don't have a development mandate.
On September 26th, 2022. See this statement in context.