Matthew Mitchell
Chief, Projects Management Branch
Japan Lessons-Learned Directorate
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When
you talk about something over and over again, you sometimes end up with
a verbal shorthand to keep conversations moving. The NRC has certainly
done that in discussing “Tiers,” “Mitigating Strategies” and some of the
other language describing our work to implement the lessons learned
from the 2011 nuclear accident at Fukushima. But we’re taking steps to
keep our verbal shorthand understandable.
Each
of the three Fukushima-related Orders we issued to U.S. reactors in
March 2012 has a fairly long title, and over time we’ve condensed those
titles into two- or three-word phrases. Now the NRC website includes a
quick
summary for
each Order, complete with a visual icon. We expect to incorporate those
icons onto other pages to help you follow the actions plants are taking
to comply with the Orders. Since one of the Orders (and a lot of recent
discussion and news coverage) focuses on the 31 U.S. reactors with
designs similar to Fukushima, we’ve listed all those
plants on one page.
A
few months after Fukushima, the senior managers that made up NRC’s
Near-Term Task Force provided several dozen individual recommendations
for the agency to consider. The staff, with the Commission’s approval,
created a three-level approach to prioritize the task force’s findings,
and we’ve created a
summary of the prioritization effort.
You’ll find printed versions of these two summaries at meetings the NRC holds near U.S. nuclear power plants.
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