Natural Resources committee  I would certainly agree with that. It seems to me that the concern about the carbon footprint of energy is a big boost for the nuclear industry, yes.

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Thank you. The medical isotope file is presently housed in the federal government in NRCan. That is primarily because of the fact that the NRU reactor was a prolific source of medical isotopes, many of which were in fact marketed through Nordion. Now that the reactor is cl

Natural Resources committee  I'm probably not the right person to answer that question, because TRIUMF is primarily a laboratory in areas of fundamental nuclear physics. On the other hand, we do a fair amount of material science, which is useful for testing the materials, for example, that would go into nucl

Natural Resources committee  Good morning. My name is Jonathan Bagger and I am the director of TRIUMF, the national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science. I am accompanied today by Mr. Sean Lee, who is responsible for external relations at TRIUMF. I thank the members of

Finance committee  There are multiple venues for commercializing the new developments that will occur through this laboratory. We are certainly talking with partners right now, including Nordion, and other companies as well, for ways we can supply the isotopes to them, so that they can then put the

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and honourable member. TRIUMF has a long history of working and developing medical isotopes that stretches back to the founding of the lab some 35 years ago. This new facility, ARIEL, will allow the laboratory to expand that program by developing new medica

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee today. I am here representing TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics research. For this year's pre-budget consultations, TRIUMF submitted a proposal recommending the cr