Natural Resources committee  Very good, sir. First of all, I think I have to outline what is meant by “didn't work”. To get a licence to build and operate a reactor, one must submit calculations to the regulator, the CNSC, that predict precisely how that reactor will behave. These calculations will show, amongst many other things, what is expected to happen when you want to increase the power of the reactor.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I thought I should open by saying who I am, since I'm appearing as a private individual. I'm a professional engineer with about 40 years of experience in the nuclear safety business, nine years or so working on pressurized water reactors and the last 31 years working on CANDU and Canadian reactors with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, with whom I was a director general for 11 years.