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

Mr. Chair, the requirement under international standards are for a convention on nuclear safety, which is a peer review group on various areas.

A month ago, I chaired the first meeting ever on the code of conduct for research reactors in Australia. What we have found up to now is that these are voluntary standards for research reactors. I think licensees and regulators themselves are very interested in benchmarking themselves, so there would not be a direct impact on international standards in that we would be violating a treaty or things like that.