Natural Resources committee  That's an excellent question because, as I said, one of our mandated objectives is to disseminate objective information. For example, on June 5 we'll be in northern Quebec in the community of Mistissini for one day, an aboriginal community. The next day, we'll be in the community

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely.

Natural Resources committee  We've done a few things. First, we clarified our regulatory requirements. In the last four years that I've been on the job, we've been overhauling all of our regulatory documents and trying to make sure that our requirements are crystal clear. Second, for new technology, as we h

Natural Resources committee  As you know, in many of our nuclear sites there is more than one unit—in Darlington, in Bruce Power and Pickering. Again, with the new technologies it's hard to know a priori how they interconnect and what the safety case is if things go wrong. So we would have to assess that. I

Natural Resources committee  I'll start and have Dr. Thompson elaborate. They are a board, which has to come up with approval of the environmental assessment. All we do is to provide technical support, because at the end of the day, if there's a uranium mine that will get the green light, they'll have to co

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely.

Natural Resources committee  It's very similar with the provinces. For example, in Saskatchewan, we have this arrangement where we don't like to duplicate each other. So if they need to have something required according to their legislation, we'll let them lead, but it's in their interest is to make sure t

Natural Resources committee  No, I don't know. This is a policy or particular file that NRCan is managing. I'm not aware of it.

Natural Resources committee  It's a piece of legislation that right now sets the rules, and we abide by the rules. I think the government has proposed a few times to amend this legislation; it just isn't passed yet.

Natural Resources committee  I am not aware.

Natural Resources committee  That's a good question, and post-Fukushima we decided that we would look at what the industry in Canada is calling the “Binder's doomsday scenario”, which is that we don't care how we got into the doomsday scenario but that what we want to know is how we're going to mitigate the

Natural Resources committee  Well, there are a couple of things. On your first point with the public, I have to tell you we do not a priori screen who can come in front of us, who cannot. Everybody's welcome to a public hearing, and we have many of them through licensing processes, though environmental asses

Natural Resources committee  There's RMC in Kingston, the University of Alberta, the Saskatchewan Research Council—

Natural Resources committee  And we have École Polytechnique of Montreal. I think Dalhousie just signed the process of decommissioning. It has been running for 20 years or so. It's been running as a research facility and hundreds of students went through it. The fact that people don't know about it is good n

Natural Resources committee  Yes.