Natural Resources committee  The only one that I know of was an attempt by a mining group to put a small modular reactor in the Arctic for mining support. They had approached the indigenous communities of the north, and they got a rather lukewarm response to that. They were quite happy with the fact that the

Natural Resources committee  I agree. Just invite us and we'll come. We talk about that in my class when we're talking about the design of a nuclear power plant and understanding how to site a plant, where to site it, and everything. One of the interesting questions I raise, if you look at Pickering specifi

Natural Resources committee  It was the countryside. Now a city has developed around it and that's changed the whole nature of the relationship between the plant and the city.

Natural Resources committee  This is something we are teaching the students, that when they're doing the design work they have to think about this and they have to plan for this. It's not necessarily a site for 150 years if this is going to change the community. We will gladly come to any council or committ

Natural Resources committee  At the university we've already started to try to work toward dealing with this. We started off in an easy way. We deal with the students first. We have forums and debates to get them introduced and excited about it. We've created a new course on nuclear security, and we have pla

Natural Resources committee  It's all about the day-to-day work we have to do. If we have to sit there and change a seal on a pump, etc., or we have to change a pressure tube or some other component.... It's the maintenance work. A lot of that maintenance work is still done in a very time-consuming manner. D

Natural Resources committee  I agree with your comment. When you look at the Darlington refurbishment, the fourth unit to the refurbishment is going to go very well because they will have learned everything from the first unit. We have to keep in mind that first unit may be delayed, it may have some issues a

Natural Resources committee  Okay. There's some good R and D that could be done in universities in the mechatronics and robotics areas, where we could start developing tools to shorten the human time involved in some of this work. That also helps with the repeatability of it, because now you have a device t

Natural Resources committee  They're all fascinating from a professor's point of view, which is “fund them all, please”, but that's impractical.

Natural Resources committee  The SCWR technology can probably go to a low funding level because it is still a technology that is going to be 15 or 20 years away with what's happening there. There's still a lot of debate about how exactly you make that device work. In the SMRs at the moment, I would either

Natural Resources committee  For a small modular reactor...?

Natural Resources committee  It's a very good question because it's almost impossible to answer. The problem is that all of the companies that are doing this are keeping their cards very close to their chests. For several years now I've been going to conferences and I see wonderful three-dimensional graphics

Natural Resources committee  I was part of the trade mission to China in April, and at that time there were several Chinese universities that were very interested in the Canadian technology. We're currently having very preliminary discussions about memorandums of understanding between our university and the

Natural Resources committee  Good morning. Thank you very much for inviting me. I'm very happy to be here. It's the first time I've been in front of such a committee. I worked in the nuclear industry for 11 years as an engineer and also as a manager, mostly supporting the CANDU product, and then later the s