Mr. Chair, I am not going to really comment on licensing, but I would comment on safety.
Our colleagues in the CNSC have stated that that reactor has been safe and it has operated safely up until the time that the reactor was shut down for its routine maintenance last month.
With the safety upgrades that we have made, in my opinion we have taken a safe reactor and we have made it even safer. The safety of producing medical isotopes in that reactor is, for me, without question, we are able to do it. We have made the case which we think is very strong in order to license the reactor and operate it safely and produce all the medical isotopes that this reactor is capable of.
This reactor, I have to say, produces almost 50% of the world's radioisotopes for medical use. When other reactors go down, it can produce 70% of the world's supply.
Mr. McGee has operated the reactor earlier this year to produce medical isotopes for the world at times when other supplies were not there.
We can produce the isotopes. We can produce them safely. To me that is the bottom line. We can do it safely and we can do it well.