Natural Resources committee  Not that I'm aware. We have talked to a few of them. Did you want to add to that?

Natural Resources committee  I think a key element to this is that we follow through on the request to develop a road map that can help us start to align where it is we're going next. When I came into the industry, you could see there had been a huge and appropriate push on refurbishment. It's great. It mak

Natural Resources committee  Right now, I will struggle to give you exact ratios. I can tell you that, obviously, the amount of external commercial funds that we're getting in revenue right now is dropping because we're not making “molly” anymore. That obviously took a bit of a dip in how much external cash

Natural Resources committee  Regarding the $800 million, we're looking at our spend profile and how we're going to spend it. We were trying to do it in the first five years, but the bottom line is we have to do it smartly. We're not going to rush ahead and try to spend it in five years and build something we

Natural Resources committee  Like you, there are a lot of people all around the world who are excited about it right now. Some of the countries have now established a program and are figuring out their path going forward. We're at the beginning of that journey right now. The Canadian Nuclear Association, t

Natural Resources committee  That's the intent of the proposal we have submitted. It's exactly that. We lay out those initial stages to first gauge the interest in getting some of these vendors to bring their technology. We can be the host site and do the federal work to answer some of the questions and deve

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question. This is our first full year in the contract right now. One of the deliverables that we had in our schedule of work this year was to put together the strategy going forward as to how we're going to actually realize that vision we talked about. A big part

Natural Resources committee  That is a delicate—I think the word is delicate—balance. I think that would ring true with you, as well. There is no doubt that they're going to roar ahead. Any of you who have gone into Beijing realize that they had better do something. I think that they're going to march ahead

Natural Resources committee  I understand. Other methods have been looked at. We've looked at whether we could solidify the material and put together a facility at the site and deal with it ourselves. First of all, the cost is much higher, but of course safety is always number one, so if it is going to cos

Natural Resources committee  I won't have the full story. Some of the arrangements for the way such sales would be done and for any kind of royalties in all this are beyond my remit, so I don't know it, but whenever we expand the fleet of CANDU reactors and take it to the next generation as well, it helps us

Natural Resources committee  This actually predates my time, so it's rather hearsay, but if you look at the specification we were responding to, there was no hint that we were going to be chasing after that initially. I can understand this. We have a lot of work in front of us, first just in properly transit

Natural Resources committee  I am not familiar with all of the advancements in other renewables that would be able to support the microgrids. I'll be honest, on just what I said, I have to go back and do a little more research myself. From what we have seen, and what we read, actually renewables are great.

Natural Resources committee  The model is not the driver. Set the model aside. If the lab wanted to continue and be successful in nuclear technology going forward, and it still maintained that it was going to stay only with the CANDU technology going forward, I'm afraid that it would not survive without a hu

Natural Resources committee  This is the classic neutron gap and what are we going to do. First of all, in our contract when we were established here, there was a clear indication from government—the previous government—that it didn't have an interest at that time in having a new reactor. The way I portra

Natural Resources committee  Do you mean the work that we do for the federal government? Yes, we have ways that we track that, and actually, we're hearing really good reports. A new committee that has been established actually funnels and understands what the different federal needs are in research. Reports