Science and Research committee  I believe it's Cameco in Saskatchewan, which is a uranium mining and processing organization.

Science and Research committee  Thanks, Dr. Keefer.

Science and Research committee  I'll start. It is probably pretty obvious that with the amount of research that's going on and the amount of plants that we believe need to be designed and built, you need a lot of people. I don't think that's a surprise to anyone. When we look at the amount of energy technol

Science and Research committee  I'm not sure I can authoritatively speak for all of the academic organizations involved, but many—I believe McMaster University, and probably McGill University—are involved in these studies. We, as a national nuclear laboratory, bridge the gap between the academic world and the i

Science and Research committee  I certainly think there is a role for the federal government with increased funding, increased attention to where these gaps exist, from the research, from test bed research, to demonstration reactors, to getting out to actual industrial production. One thing this industry is ver

Science and Research committee  Good evening, Madam Chair and committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research to discuss small modular reactors. My name is Joe McBrearty, and I am the president and CEO at Canadian Nuclear Labor

Environment committee  It's first important to understand that CNL and AECL fully support all indigenous rights under UNDRIP. We have done early and frequent engagement. We will continue to do that as we go forward. That is part of our process and it's part of our commitment. As I said earlier, when we

Environment committee  We believe that the CEAA 2012 process that we were grandfathered under is adequate to cover the parts of the IAA that you're discussing. Mr. Demarkar may have a further comment.

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to comment here. I don't think it can overstated that a good portion of the waste that we have today, as I said earlier, is exposed. It is exposed to the elements. When most folks think of nuclear waste, they think of it in sealed contain

Environment committee  There's a lot to unravel in that question, and that is okay. We're concentrating right now on the low-level waste from our perspective, but your questions go into some of the future potential ways that we could reprocess or get rid of the waste. Certainly, the discussions on mol

Environment committee  Yes, sir, that's true.

Environment committee  As part of our commitments and environmental assessment, we drew up a large number of actions we committed to, which are part of what we call our “environmental assessment follow-up monitoring plan”. That will take into account not only environment monitoring, but also areas such

Environment committee  I would say that the structures within government are the prerogative of government. As a private contractor, we should not opine on that area. That is something I believe internal government policy is best used to address.

Environment committee  Thanks for that question. Mr. Dermarkar may want to provide a few more pieces of opinion on this, but we are subject to what I would call “freedom of information” acts. That's the term I'm used to since I'm from the United States—but yes.

Environment committee  I think we probably just need to make a few things clear. The Impact Assessment Act allowed for projects that were already under way under CEAA 2012 to continue under that act. Some of the key differences between the Impact Assessment Act and CEAA 2012 were the engagements with