A parallel path followed with urgency can bring the already built MAPLE reactors to an operating state or perhaps the next six to eighteen months. And such a strategy offers the best prospect for putting Canada on a firm footing for assurance of supply.[of medical isotopes] ... there are two MAPLE reactors, each with the capacity to deliver more than the current world requirement. Positive PCR requires a relatively simple engineering fix to restrain the bowing of the elements and to reduce the PCR to approximately zero. I thank you for your attention, and I hope this doesn't turn into another Avro Arrow.

The engineering team that built the MAPLE nuclear reactors at Chalk River, Ont., was four months away from fixing a technical problem that had kept them from getting a licence when the project was cancelled, MPs were told Thursday...