NEI Nuclear Notes

Michael Pacilio This week is the fifth anniversary of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant . To mark the event, we'll be sharing observations from leaders around the nuclear energy industry all week long on how the U.S. has absorbed lessons learned from the accident to make safe nuclear plants even safer . Today's contribution comes from Michael Pacilio, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Exelon Generation. After the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s acceptance of the industry’s FLEX strategy , the industry immediately began development of a three-phased approach to mitigating beyond-design-basis events . In phase one, companies would use permanently installed equipment as an initial means of responding to a serious event. The phase two concept drove the acquisition and storage of portable equipment at each nuclear plant site to enhance the station’s coping strategies. Finally, phase three drove the enhancement of existing inte...