Environment committee  That's a very pertinent question, and one of the founding principles that we embarked on was to ensure that man-made or natural events would have no impact on this particular storage facility. There are a couple of things that I do want to clarify. When you use the term “interme

Environment committee  I will turn that initially over to Mr. Dermarkar to give a view from AECL, and then, if you have any further questions, I will certainly follow up with you.

Environment committee  There is a statutory process that exists in Canada, operated by our regulator, the CNSC. This project in particular is under a thing called CEAA 2012. Our environmental assessment and environmental impact statement that was generated for this project started under that legislatio

Environment committee  Thanks. I'll start and then turn it over to Mr. Dermarkar for his view. The GOCO, or the government-owned contractor-operated, contract offers one of the best potential contracting mechanisms that Canada can employ. There is not very much decommissioning in nuclear waste managem

Environment committee  It is much safer stored in the near surface disposal facility versus above ground. I would just add that a large percentage of our waste exists today and it is not contained. It is not isolated. It is open to the elements.

Environment committee  Thank you, sir, for the questions. Folks are generally concerned because they look at the geographic separation between the proposed site of the NSDF and the Ottawa River. However, we selected the NSDF site after a fairly rigorous process to determine the best site on our campu

Environment committee  It's always a controversial topic. Folks are very impassioned by nuclear power and nuclear waste disposal to begin with, and today we actually have, I think, a very robust, very rigorous process that allows the public to express their concerns that either we or our regulator, the

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to be here today. My name is Joe McBrearty. I'm the president and CEO of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. Joining me today is Ms. Meggan Vickerd, our general manager of waste services. My remarks today will

Industry committee  Thanks very much for that question. We are still working very closely to look at hydrogen for transport. We have some specialized catalytic technology at CNL. We are in the process of continuing to do studies for those systems. Obviously, with hydrogen, safety is the number on

Industry committee  Part of the production of hydrogen is an electrolysis production and it's also done by heat. One of the methods we look at in the production of hydrogen is using waste heat from other plants, heat that would actually be wasted anyway. You can use that heat to be able to help prod

Industry committee  At this point, we are looking at taking the technology and the catalysts that we have at CNL from the laboratory benchtop to a prototype design, so that we can actually show that we can move it to industrial scale. We are not ready to do that yet. We would expect that it would ta

Industry committee  Good morning, Madam Chair, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee today. My testimony today is to complement that provided by Dr. Art McDonald and perhaps provide some insight into the collaboration among so many, including those at CNL, TRIUMF, SNOLAB