Ms. Linda J. Keen on An Act to permit the resumption and continuation of the operation of the National Research Universal Reactor at Chalk River

In the House of Commons on December 11th, 2007. See this statement in context.

An Act to permit the resumption and continuation of the operation of the National Research Universal Reactor at Chalk RiverGovernment Orders

December 11th, 2007 / 7:50 p.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Linda J. Keen

Mr. Chair, the CNSC has site staff that perform regular reviews of this. It was scheduled that we would be looking at this facility during this November shutdown and would be doing an overview of all the systems.

However, I must emphasize that the Nuclear Safety and Control Act requires that the licensee is responsible for the safety of this facility. Our oversight was there. It was continuous, but in this specific case this was a scheduled look at all the systems and this was when it was discovered.

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