Natural Resources committee  The approach we're taking on the repair of the NRU reactor vessel is to target a repair that will allow operation beyond 2016. The actual life of the NRU is not determined. There's no specific date. It will be decided by the ongoing inspection programs that we have and the ongoing fitness for service assessments that we do as we go forward.

Natural Resources committee  There was a single leak. There is an area at the base of the vessel, around the circumference, or around part of the circumference, where there is a corrosion mechanism taking place--

Natural Resources committee  No, on an area at the base of the reactor that covers an arc of something in the order of 200°.

Natural Resources committee  That was caused by water leakage into the J-rod annulus, the space between the reactor vessel itself, the heavy-water filled reactor vessel, and the light-water filled reflector. There was a gas space in between, and because of the presence of water in that gas space, as a result of chronic light-water leakage, and as a result of the presence of air in that space, in the presence also of radiation, that allowed the formation of nitric acid.

Natural Resources committee  It is 52 years old at this point.

Natural Resources committee  Again, I can't give you a date. As I said before, this is determined by the aging management program and the inspections that we do going forward. We are committed to operating the NRU through the next licence interval, 2011 to 2016. We believe it can be operated cost-effectively beyond that point.

Natural Resources committee  No, it's in addition.

Natural Resources committee  That's correct.

Natural Resources committee  It does. There's a loss of revenue and then there's a savings of not producing, and it nets.

Natural Resources committee  It shut down in mid-May. That is the cost incremental to the normal cost of the operations of the site that will be required to repair the NRU.

Natural Resources committee  I think that's a question that, again, goes broader than my mandate. My mandate is to in fact return the NRU to service and operate it reliably. I would again suggest that it's the expert panel who are looking at that and who will be advising the government on what the appropriate course of action is, going forward.

Natural Resources committee  So you're—

Natural Resources committee  You're in the general ball park, yes.

Natural Resources committee  I believe the money has not yet been allocated for this. We'll be going through the normal processes.

Natural Resources committee  Back in service at high power in the first quarter, yes.