Environment committee  If I may add, Mr. Chair, to Madam Velshi's comments with regard to our record, international peer review, taken on from contracting parties—which is the convention and the treaty—learn from Canadian regulatory oversight and the management of the waste. I would like to inform the

Environment committee  You asked about the lead. At the last IRRS mission we did receive a good practice rating under the international peer review. That means other member states should take into consideration the success of the Canadian model from a regulatory perspective. I personally lead many mi

Environment committee  The protection of the environment is key for every assessment and oversight. It doesn't matter if the material is being transported or not. On safeguards, again, there is an obligation under the IAEA to safeguard the material, if that's the question. IAEA inspectors come to sit

Environment committee  I can respond, Mr. Chair.

Environment committee  Pardon?

Environment committee  Thank you, madam, for your question. All of the documents are fully available. As for the consultations, they were already underway with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. What the commission has approved has already been made public. Everything is available on our website

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Velshi. In 20 seconds, the process of the joint convention is established in accordance to a treaty. We call it a “convention”, but it is a treaty under the UN. The process is very much formalized. You asked a question about what we call “areas for improvement”

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. The ship itself, as I previously mentioned, is an irradiated nuclear fuel qualified ship that will only, and only, be carrying those steam generators, and as a matter of fact, there are only 16 of them. The volume that's being transported represents 25% of the ship's

Natural Resources committee  The Chair put it very well. The current situation is that there are no pre-approved packages to house these materials. It is quite routine for all reactor spent fuel to be shipped in a safe manner. Once the fuel has been spent, tests and checks are required to ascertain whether c

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Our president mentioned the fact that there have been shipments on barges on the Michigan side of the lake. We have the list here. I can provide it for steam generators from Hancock's Bridge, New Jersey, to Barnwell, South Carolina. Unit after unit after unit was safely tra

Natural Resources committee  None--reported anyway.

Natural Resources committee  The special arrangement is required in order to prove the safety equivalency as if you would put those generators into a pre-approved package. That's the intent of a special arrangement. In the absence of an existing pre-approved packaging, you will carry out the assessment of th

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. In terms of the shipment from Germany, let me start first by making two comparisons. Those steam generators that currently the proponents have applied for have been decommissioned for several years. The shipment that did take place in Germany was a recent removal of t

Natural Resources committee  I'll read, Mr. Chair, the conclusion of the World Nuclear Transport Institute, which says: According to the information provided, it appears that the transport of sixteen steam generators from Canada to Sweden follows the current industry practice for the safe transport of larg

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. Correct. The Studsvik facility in Sweden is the most competent and the only available facility that is currently capable of separating the clean steel from the radioactive steel through that process. There have been allegations made that there were other ways of do