Science and Research committee  I'm not sure I can give you an exact figure on the percentage of the global market. Right now, I would say it's probably fairly small in the lutetium-177 area. In the alpha therapies that I mentioned, which is the actinium, we're really just on the cusp of starting to get compani

Science and Research committee  Certainly the technology could be CANDU for large-scale nuclear production, and it could be small modular reactors for more advanced or newer types of production. I should remind everyone that small modular reactor technology is, for the most part, existing technology that is pre

Science and Research committee  Today, we're harvesting the isotope of most importance from a cancer perspective. It is an isotope known as lutetium-177, which is being produced by the Bruce Power reactors. Lutetium-177 is a beta emitter. Similar to what I discussed with actinium, which is an alpha emitter, bet

Science and Research committee  Let me frame it by putting some stuff in perspective. Today, there are 19 CANDU reactors operating safely and reliably in Canada across two provinces. There are, I think, a total of 29 CANDU reactors operating across the world. This is reactor technology that was born out of AEC

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. It's a pleasure to once again appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research. I would like to begin by acknowledging that our operations at CNL take place on the unceded and unsurrendered traditi

Science and Research committee  Thanks very much. To address the first part of the question, we have a very active recruiting program to make sure we can get a broad spectrum of engineers, trades and skilled scientists throughout, and we link ourselves with universities so we can draw from those organizations

Science and Research committee  From a standpoint of being able to harvest the capability and energy inside spent fuel, it's reprocessing. Reprocessing is an option. Other countries use it. We have the capabilities at CNL to provide the technological R and D to companies like Moltex to be able to figure out how

Science and Research committee  From the spent fuel research into usable fuel, you have to understand the processes and what the risks are with that fuel from a proliferation standpoint, but you also need to be able to understand what the fuel and material components are and how they are going to interact. You

Science and Research committee  The processes are chemical and physical processes that you can use to extract the material. As we know, those processes are used overseas, in other countries. I would be remiss to go too much more into detail on how that process works. I am not an expert in the fuel reprocessin

Science and Research committee  There are many projects under way throughout the world. General Fusion, for instance, out of British Columbia, is working on a project. The ITER project in the south of France is a large, international project that is supposed to get the first plasma within the next few years. Th

Science and Research committee  I think that's a very fair assessment. As we touched on a little bit earlier in the conversation, this is going to be a growing industry. You are going to need not only the scientists and the engineers, but also skilled trades to execute these construction projects, and you're go

Science and Research committee  I think this is probably an opportunity to see and to discuss how nuclear ties into hydrogen fuels going into the future. Regarding the ability of today, basically hydrogen is produced mainly through electrolysis or catalysis. It requires a fairly significant amount of energy—ba

Science and Research committee  Absolutely.

Science and Research committee  Thanks very much for that question. Most of the new technology involves much more passive safety features. Today's reactors require some sort of active safety measures in their design. The newer reactors are really designed to be able to walk away from it and not have to worry a

Science and Research committee  That's a very good question. The first thing you have to understand is that the industry needs to listen to the folks who are in those communities. As we go out to try to spread the message of why nuclear is valuable, the first step with the process is really getting folk's opi