English: The Minister mentioned the open-pool Australian lightwater reactor project. I've actually spoken to some of the experts in Australia in medicinal nuclear; I've spoken to experts in Canada as well, and I'm due to have a meeting with the Jules Horowitz research reactor in France and the München research reactor before long. The Minister mentioned there that there's no comparable development. Well, the Jules Horowitz is a comparable development, and the UK is a key partner in the Jules Horowitz development, which would ensure radioisotopes for the UK post Brexit. But nevertheless, in January 2015, Dr François Bénard and his colleagues at the University of British Columbia had shown that cyclotrons could replace large nuclear reactors as the main source of radioisotopes. Dr Bénard, the pre-eminent expert in this field, said: 'With this solution, we'll be able to make completely locally-grown isotopes, without any long-term radioactive waste'. By December 2020, Canada's health regulating body had given their approval for cyclotron production of technetium-99m to be used in their health procedures. It's been lauded as a greener, more reliable way to make technetium-99m, and it opens the door to huge possibilities, not least because many of the world's most common cyclotrons will now be able to produce technetium-99m. So, does the Minister accept that it is therefore not necessary to develop a nuclear reactor and all of the dangerous radioactive waste and damaging environmental impact that comes with this, and that we should reach out and work with TRIUMF and British Columbia university so that we can develop these cyclotrons at Trawsfynydd in order to roll them out across the UK?
Welsh: Soniodd y Gweinidog am brosiect adweithydd pwll agored dŵr ysgafn Awstralia. Mewn gwirionedd rwyf wedi siarad â rhai o'r arbenigwyr yn Awstralia ym maes niwclear meddyginiaethol; rwyf wedi siarad ag arbenigwyr yng Nghanada hefyd, ac mae disgwyl i mi gael cyfarfod gydag adweithydd ymchwil Jules Horowitz yn Ffrainc ac adweithydd ymchwil München cyn hir. Soniodd y Gweinidog nad oes datblygiad tebyg. Wel, mae'r Jules Horowitz yn ddatblygiad tebyg, ac mae'r DU yn bartner allweddol yn natblygiad Jules Horowitz, a fyddai'n sicrhau radioisotopau ar gyfer y DU ar ôl Brexit. Ond serch hynny, ym mis Ionawr 2015, dangosodd y Dr François Bénard a'i gydweithwyr ym Mhrifysgol British Columbia y gallai cyclotronau ddisodli adweithyddion niwclear mawr fel prif ffynhonnell radioisotopau. Dywedodd Dr Bénard, arbenigwr blaenllaw'r maes hwn: 'Gyda'r ateb hwn, byddwn yn gallu gwneud isotopau sydd wedi'u tyfu'n llwyr yn lleol, heb unrhyw wastraff ymbelydrol tymor hir'. Erbyn mis Rhagfyr 2020, roedd corff rheoleiddio iechyd Canada wedi rhoi cymeradwyaeth i gynhyrchu cyclotron o technetium-99m i'w ddefnyddio yn eu gweithdrefnau iechyd. Mae wedi cael ei ganmol fel ffordd werddach, fwy dibynadwy o wneud technetium-99m, ac mae'n agor y drws i bosibiliadau enfawr, yn bennaf oherwydd bydd llawer o seiclotronau mwyaf cyffredin y byd nawr yn gallu cynhyrchu technetium-99m. Felly, a yw'r Gweinidog yn derbyn nad oes angen felly i ddatblygu adweithydd niwclear a'r holl wastraff ymbelydrol peryglus a difrod amgylcheddol a ddaw yn sgil hyn, ac y dylem ni estyn allan a gweithio gyda TRIUMF a phrifysgol British Columbia fel y gallwn ni ddatblygu'r cyclotronau hyn yn Nhrawsfynydd er mwyn eu cyflwyno ledled y DU?