Natural Resources committee  The question of security of this material is obviously a question that needs very careful thought, and we need to be very careful about what we say about it. I can assure you that all the precautions taken to safeguard that material right now in Canada and elsewhere result in a v

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's correct.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. This very question was significantly dealt with during the three-year study we conducted between 2002 and 2005. In that study, we were required by our federal mandate to look at the options you describe there. But when we consulted with Canadians an

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. Perhaps I will make two points up front and try to get to a detailed answer there. First, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization is absolutely committed to locating a deep geologic repository in an informed and willing community, and that includes the r

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. In Canada's policy on long-term used fuel management, the end point is to store that used fuel in an unreprocessed form in a deep geologic repository where it could be retrieved if necessary. The majority of other countries with nuclear power plants are not reproces

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. There's no doubt that when we do our dialogues with Canadians and we talk about long-term nuclear waste management they are looking for what is essentially the blue-box solution: can we recycle this? That's in the Canadian psyche, actually. What our assessments told

Natural Resources committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for this opportunity to appear before the committee this afternoon. Used fuel arises as a byproduct of electricity generation. My remarks will focus on Canada's progress on the long-term management of this material. Work on used fuel disposal in Canada