Science and Research committee  Yes.

Science and Research committee  Yes, from their training programs and from their education. Likewise, we have facilities at McMaster—like the reactor— and people can come; they might not have a reactor on campus. We leverage that to give them an experience, and our students get an experience. What's different

Science and Research committee  Right now, it's really, I would say, ad hoc. In some cases, there are some travel grants from the university that are available on a limited basis. There are some from the Society of Professional Engineers. The student would have to work within the envelope to try to find funding

Science and Research committee  Yes, it's more complicated at the grad level. My experience is that it works best when there are good partnerships in place already. With the research collaborators that I have in place in France, Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic, those are the places where we usually form a

Science and Research committee  Yes. I want to take the opportunity to thank NSERC and the CFI. I've had a long career in academia, and I'd say I've been very well supported from the research side. I partner quite often with utilities in Ontario and federal government agencies like AECL, and I get funding sup

Science and Research committee  A majority of them go back. The French government or their local governments provide the funding for their living expenses to come here and collaborate on research with students. Most then go back. We have kept a couple over my 15 years here, but it's a rare occurrence.

Science and Research committee  All but three are working in the nuclear field in Canada, and those three are actually in artificial intelligence and got much higher-paying jobs working for banks.

Science and Research committee  It's important to have a balanced approach that takes equity and inclusivity into it. I can give a personal story that will help shed light...and it hurts me a bit to say it. One of my post-doctoral researchers told me, one week before they were giving birth, that they were go

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I apologize for arriving late. My flight was delayed. It's my pleasure to address this distinguished committee and provide my personal insights on the issue of graduate student scholarship and post-doctoral fellow funding. I obtained my Ph

Science and Research committee  I know the training requirements for an operator in existing power plants, and it's about four years beyond their usual education. For SMRs, because of the simplification, I think we hope to do better, to provide the training and the experience necessary in a shorter time frame.

Science and Research committee  It's an excellent question. Right now, I think 100% of my students usually end up at OPG or at Bruce Power, on projects related to either refurbishment or the new nuclear builds that OPG is pursuing. A great deal of effort is being focused there on this first success. It's impo

Science and Research committee  We have some research projects that are sponsored by some of these vendors that are proposing the reactors. It's not just me, but other researchers at Mac. My SMR training program is funded solely by the federal government, through NSERC. In that respect, the training is kind of

Science and Research committee  It takes a large number of engineers and operators at the Darlington site to run a unit. I think one of the major goals in SMRs is a simplification of the design and operations, so that the load of people you need to manage that reactor on a daily basis is much reduced and can be

Science and Research committee  Actually, I'd just like to refer back to the SMR road map that was produced by the government in collaboration with industries. It was led by Natural Resources Canada but OPG, Bruce Power and local utilities in Saskatchewan and in the north all provided input. In there, they prov

Science and Research committee  I'll turn it over to Dave Tucker, who's been running that feasibility study and the incipience of it to answer that.