Natural Resources committee  The financial liability is related to the nuclear installation, so in the case of Hydro Quebec, it would be the Gentilly-2 and in the case of Lepreau it would be Point Lepreau. In the case of Ontario, where there's a number of reactors on one site, it's often the case that the li

Natural Resources committee  It depends on the definition of what's a nuclear installation, and that would be established in the regulations. I believe you'll eventually be getting into clause-by-clause review, and we will have experts here who have more expertise in exactly how much is attached to each inst

Natural Resources committee  It was the figure at the time.

Natural Resources committee  If you're talking about 2020, we're not really talking about new builds in that, or only at the very end of the period, if possible. I think the contribution of the nuclear industry over that period will probably be through the refurbishment projects that are under way now that w

Natural Resources committee  Historically, I think if you add it up, it exceeds $8 billion to the end of 2008-09. I don't have the precise figures, but it's in that order of magnitude.

Natural Resources committee  No. I'll have to go back and look at the numbers, but I believe that it's from going back to the 1940s and just adding up all the numbers. It doesn't include the liabilities, in my understanding.

Natural Resources committee  No, not at this time. Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  No, but I think the answer given was that the previous major shutdown was in the early seventies, and there was a backup reactor, the NRX, available at that time. So it didn't create the global shortages we've seen recently with the shutdown of the NRU—or, actually, with the shut

Natural Resources committee  There was a significant reduction in conjunction with program review in 1995. I'd have to go back to the figures.

Natural Resources committee  I believe all of them were operating at the time. The other four were operating, is my understanding. I'd have to go back and check the historical records--

Natural Resources committee  The only thing I can say about the technical risk is that the predecessor project to the MAPLE was a MAPLE X reactor. AECL terminated that program in the early nineties, and indeed, that sort of precipitated a bit the actions leading to the MAPLE. Now with respect to the regulat

Natural Resources committee  I think Mr. MacDiarmid may be able to provide further technical details, but the problem, as the minister outlined, is that there was behaviour that was predicted by the design and safety codes that were presented to the CNSC, and there was an observed behaviour that was differen

Natural Resources committee  I know that on a worldwide basis, the Nuclear Energy Agency, which is located in Paris, has looked at this question about the adequacy of uranium supply and I think have concluded that given reasonable expectations of what reserves are and how quickly they could be discovered, it

Natural Resources committee  Two years ago.

Natural Resources committee  I think we probably have to do both. Certainly if you're talking about a new nuclear plant, you're right, with the regulatory process and the construction process, I think the earliest you could bring a new reactor on stream would be probably 2015 or 2016. The refurbishments are