Natural Resources committee  I'd prefer to defer to my colleague, Shawn-Patrick Stensil, on that topic, and also to Michel Fugère. It's too complex for me to decide; I'm just a physicist, you know.

Natural Resources committee  Let me tackle your last question first, on power transmission. The Europeans are starting a very large project called Desertec, where they will build solar power plants in North Africa and transmit the power to northern Europe over lines as long as 2,000 kilometres, at one millio

Natural Resources committee  I apologize, I have not looked into the South Korean versions of the CANDU reactors. I'm mostly concerned with the Gentilly 2 nuclear reactor that we have in Quebec.

Natural Resources committee  Oh, you're talking about the MAPLEs.

Natural Resources committee  The Canadian MAPLE reactors are of a different design that did have a positive reactivity problem, but of a different nature than the one in the CANDU. But it's the same thing. What is of concern with the MAPLE debacle was reported right here in this committee last June, that A

Natural Resources committee  It turns out that many provinces—Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes—are surrounded by water, over which good winds flow. We have several times the power output of Saudi Arabia on all these water surfaces, and I highly recommend that you have a look into that. Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  What is striking about the CANDU reactor design is that there are so many tubes. In the CANDU 6 reactor, you have 380 horizontal tubes that carry the fuel, the energy producer, and the problem with having tubes in a nuclear reactor is that neutrons are constantly bombarding every

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I studied physics at the University of Montreal. Then I went to Yale University to get a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. Afterwards I joined AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey, where I worked for a total of 21 years, including a three-year stay at Sandia National Laboratories

Natural Resources committee  My colleague Mr. Waddington spoke eloquently about Canada's contribution to modern science in developing the medical isotopes, which is a very healthy business in several Canadian provinces. I think it would be a blow to the Canadian reputation, especially our scientific and engi

Natural Resources committee  As you know, nuclear reactor safety is very controversial. As an example, some power companies in the United States want to continue the operation of Indian Point near New York City, and the State of New York is suing the federal government to prevent the nuclear regulatory commi

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the invitation. I'd like to give a few points of information about my background. I have a PhD in nuclear physics from Yale University. I've had two careers, a 21-year career at the AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey, during which I spent three years at the Sandia N