Natural Resources committee  They don't pour it. It goes through the waste facilities, which make sure that whatever is released in the water is within standards.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  In this particular last event?

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. We were informed, and our protocol worked. Within hours of this event, even when the operators were suspicious of this particular leak, they were already talking to our staff. They've taken it upon themselves to shut down the reactor and to keep it shut down so they

Natural Resources committee  If I understand correctly, if you're asking in general whether AECL is running—

Natural Resources committee  In answer to the second question, the answer is yes, as long as were convinced that all the improvements that should be made are really going to be carried out.

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely not. We will not prejudge the outcome. They will have to come to us with an extensive safety case that says that continuing with this machine is safe. Just so everybody understands, if we for one second believe that this machine is unsafe, we will shut it down. Just

Natural Resources committee  I'd like to correct this. I report to Parliament--to you--through the Minister of Natural Resources. She deposits our annual budget and so on, because I cannot do it.

Natural Resources committee  All the public information associated with our business is posted on our website.

Natural Resources committee  I wasn't here, so that's really difficult in hindsight.

Natural Resources committee  There was a disagreement. Let me tell you. We did a Talisman report on lessons learned from what happened in 2007 that caused this problem. They came up with 60 recommendations, but you can boil it down to basically three: they said that they didn't have a good tracking record;

Natural Resources committee  My understanding, and I wasn't there, is that the AECL shut itself down. The commission has never rendered a commission decision. As a commission, they never issued the decision about opening or not opening it.

Natural Resources committee  I understand.

Natural Resources committee  My understanding of what happened was that AECL proposed to reopen, to restart, and there was a kind of a leaning of the regulator towards allowing them to reopen. But how the mechanism of this reluctance was transmitted wasn't formal and wasn't through the normal commission work

Natural Resources committee  It's important to remember that in 2006, when AECL came to ask for a licence renewal for five years, we had done a comprehensive review of all the components and all the safety. You will remember those upgrades and those backup powers. They all came from that review. We are cont