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Natural Resources committee Before I pass it on to Mr. Jammal, there are two quantities, if you like. That's why I think people are misunderstanding the comparison. There is the weight and there's the activity. The weight of the total radioactivity material inside a steam generator is about four grams, and
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee No one has, to my knowledge.
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee No, we are talking about a different type of waste. I would ask Mr. Jammal to provide more detail on this.
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee The people against this project are the same ones who are against uranium and Gentilly-2. They have always opposed the nuclear industry. Safety has nothing to do with it. It is really an issue of opposition to the nuclear industry. It is a genuine challenge.
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee It could be. It's hypothetical. But I can tell you that the CEA Agency itself does not believe this requires their type of EA. In fact they deferred it to us and said that as a responsible authority we should do the environmental review, which is equivalent to the environmental a
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee Absolutely. There have been quite a few, not only this but also on the U.S. side. If memory serves, the U.S. shipped steam generators on a barge. All kinds of materials are being shipped that are at a much more radioactive level than these particular steam generators. I don't k
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee Okay, then I will take it. One is using heavy water and the other one is using light water. Within 15 seconds, light water is thus pure water, whereas heavy water is—how do I explain it—deuterium.
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee I have to be blunt. In my opinion, this is not about safety anymore; this is about anti-nuclear. There is a professional anti-nuclear organization that is preying off the fear of nuclear. Let's be realistic; they interfere. They signed--
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee They all signed an almost identical petition, not written by them, but by some other people who scared the hell out of them about the possible doomsday scenario of an incredible kind of accident. Our conclusions are that this is a safe activity. I can tell you that when we read
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee That is correct.
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee We haven't shipped this particular steam generator, but we are shipping practically on a weekly basis, from OPG to Bruce Power, all kinds of low-level waste. We recycle things from when we dismantled the heavy water plant in Bruce, when we dismantled the white shell material—
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee We've never sent a steam generator before.
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee No, there will be some, but very, very few. We can actually give you the number of them if you want the number. But remember, you refurbish nuclear power plants once every 30 years. So with many of the other ones, the steam generator is fine and they're not going to be sent anywh
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder
Natural Resources committee No. We have a principle that if you can do things better--it's called ALARA, as low as reasonably achievable. We try to continuously improve. For example, in uranium mines in operation, every time we can find a way of doing things better, we will look at that. So yes, when the
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Michael Binder