Mr. David F. Torgerson on An Act to permit the resumption and continuation of the operation of the National Research Universal Reactor at Chalk River

Mr. Chair, yes, I can provide the assurance that we will operate NRU safely. That is our number one task. There is nothing more important than operating NRU safely. We believe we can operate it safely.

We have made a safety case that says that we can operate that reactor safely with one pump hooked to the EPS. We operated it safely before when we had that pump hooked up to the EPS, so we are absolutely convinced that we can operate that plant safely.

I worked for 41 years in nuclear facilities and this is a safe facility. I have no hesitation to say that it is a safe facility and we can operate it safely.