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Exelon Nuclear
March 29, 2012
Exelon's ten stations - with 17 reactors 12 BWRs/5 PWRs represent approximately 20 percent of the U.S. nuclear industry's power capacity.
Spent fuel cooling and makeup Extended loss of AC power External events - earthquake, tsunami, flooding, etc. Hydrogen control Emergency response Aggressive actions taken by US utilities; united approach led by NEI; alignment with INPO
Fukushima Actions
NEI
NRC
INPO
SECY-11-0137
FINAL
Recommended Actions to be Taken Without Delay from the Near-term Task Force Report Dated 9/9/11
Task Force
Near-term Task Force Review of the Insights from the Fukushima Daiichi Accident
SECY-11-0124
INITIAL
Recommended Actions to be Taken Without Delay from the Near-term Task Force Report Dated 9/9/11
Exelon Fukushima Organization Vice President Sponsor Severe Accident Management Director Engineers
Electrical Structural Mechanical Seismic Flooding PRA
IER 11-1 IER 11-1, Provide near-term assurance of high state of readiness to respond to both design basis and beyond design basis events
Verify existing capability to mitigate design events Verify existing capability to mitigate SBO Verify capability to mitigate internal/external flooding Walk downs/inspections of equipment needed to mitigate fire and flood events for potential that function could be lost during seismic events
IER 11-2 IER 11-2, Spent Fuel Pool Loss of Cooling and Makeup
Increase the sensitivity to spent fuel storage event response
1. Verify shutdown safety provisions applied to SFP during outage 2. Apply increased protection for SFP during operating modes while heat load remains high 3. Provide time to saturation conditions to control room and emergency response staff 4. Abnormal operating procedures address loss of cooling and makeup 5. Emergency procedures contain precaution for monitoring SFP level and temperature
PWRs
Common Actions
Communications
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NRC RFI/Orders 2.1 Seismic/External Flooding Hazard Re-evaluation - RFI response 6/12 2.3 Seismic/External Flooding Walk downs - RFI 6/12 Complete walkdowns 9/12 4.2 Mitigating Strategies - Order response 2/13 5.1 Containment Vents - Order response 2/13 7.1 SFP Instrumentation - Order response 2/13 9.3 EP Staffing and Communications Staffing - RFI Response 6/12 Communications - RFI 5/12 Site Communications Assessment 9/12
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In Summary
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Fukushima has clearly changed the world Our task is to make it a change for the better Industry alignment and cooperation with INPO, NEI will continue to be critical Fleets clearly have an advantage since the issues can be very complex Specific cost estimates are still to be determined challenging but manageable