NEI /INPO: Enhanced Emergency Response Capabilities

1. NEI /INPO:Enhanced Emergency Response Capabilities Sue Perkins-Grew Senior Director Emergency Preparedness & Risk Assessment, NEI Lee Baxley Emergency Preparedness Manager, INPO 2014 NREP April 9, 2014– Salt Lake City, Utah

2. NEI / INPO Update • Enhanced Response Capabilities • Industry Priorities • Challenges on the Horizon

3. Beyond Design Basis External Events • “BDBEE”

4. Beyond Design Basis External Events • New assumptions: • External Event • Multiple units affected • Extended loss of AC power • Impeded access to the units

5. U.S. Emergency Response Improvements Lee Baxley Manager, INPO Emergency Preparedness

6. Industry Response Coordination The Way Forward http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/safetyandsecurity/whitepaper/the-way-forward

7. Industry Response Coordination The Way Forward • Industry coordinated response • Regulatory interface • Stakeholder communications • Event analysis and lessons learned • Immediate actions for U.S. industry • Technology use and advancement • External event assessment • Strategies for EOP, SAMG, EDMG • Venting & Filtering Strategies

9. U.S. Industry Post-Fukushima Actions

10. FLEX The US Approach To Large Event Mitigation

11. FLEX FLEX: three-pronged strategy • Phase 1: Installed plant equipment • Phase 2: On-site portable equipment • Phase 3: Off-site portable equipment • Unaffected Site or Utility • Regional Response Centers

12. Affected Site Implement Emergency Plans Notify NEI/ INPO

13. INPO Receive Station Notification Gain Situational Awareness Activate and Deploy Resources Coordinate Industry Response Maintain Situational Awareness Operating Experience

14. Industry coordinated response Regulatory interface Stakeholder communications

15. EPRI • Technology use and advancement • External event assessment

16. FLEX IMPLEMENTATION

17. FLEX FLEX: three-pronged strategy • Phase 1: installed plant equipment • Phase 2: on-site portable equipment • Phase 3: off-site portable equipment

18. The Pooled Equipment Inventory Company (PEICo) has joined forces with AREVA NP Inc. to create the SAFER Team to develop and manage a FLEX regional response center program as part of the PEICo’s existing Pooled Inventory Management (PIM) Program for the U.S. nuclear industry.

19. SAFER Program Services • Two Regional Response Centers (Memphis & Phoenix) • Response Equipment Procurement • Maintenance & Testing of Response Equipment • Support for Site Specific Deployment Plans and Staging Areas • Logistics and Transportation • Emergency Response Control Center • Emergency On-Site Support • Project Management with Project Plan • QA Program

20. RRC Equipment

21. Regional Response Center Locations

22. 800 Mile Radius2 RRC Locations

23. Timeline for Emergency Response 24 Hour FLEX Equipment • T-0 – Notification • T-2 – Mobilization • T-4 – Transportation to Staging Area • T-20 – Equipment Preparation • T-22 – Transportation to Site • T-24 – First Equipment On-site 72 Hour FLEX Equipment • All plants – FLEX equipment to be delivered by Ground Transportation

24. Summary • Significant Safety Margin Gains from Completed Actions • Industry capabilities greatly improved • Framework document outlines US industry support for station during event • Support of off-sites will be critical in successful deployment of resources

25. Industry Response Capability - Next Steps Objectives: • Coordinate inclusion of a national response capability into the Nuclear Radiological Incident Annex • Create a national capability to support the deployment of FLEX equipment • Involve all State emergency management agencies

26. Industry Priorities Implement FLEX response programs at each site to comply with NRC Order Advocate for a “stand-alone” future regulation that addresses all requirements associated with BDB event response capabilities Ensure that changes do not distract the plants from performing safe day-to-day operations

27. Challenges on the Horizon Cumulative Effects of Regulation 2015 Robinson Exercise

28. Questions? Sue Perkins-Grew 202-739-8016 spg@nei.org Lee Baxley (770) 644-8305 BaxleyRL@inpo.org