We have not had one single fatality related to a reactor in the last, well, in the history of those facilities.

While we cannot predict when or where the next major disaster will occur, we know adequate preparation and response planning are vital to minimize injury and death when it does happen.

We need to answer that question now.

Thanks so much. Thanks for coming here to testify for us today. Very, very good testimony. Thank you.

We need to implore the Congress support the NRC, not only in these efforts but in implementing and ensuring that followup actions are taken.

We need to be mindful of, to learn as much from this as we can, to make sure that kind of tragedy does not occur here or hopefully in any other country.

If we needed to expand it, we certainly could and would do that.

Do we have any idea if those batteries can be recharged?

I think the lesson that we need to learn is what can we take away from the events in Japan that would allow us to evolve that plan?

We need to learn the lessons from that. That information needs to be transparent.

maybe the worst thing that could happen was on the heels of this terrible tragedy... for us not to have learned anything from it.

I do think the plan is flexible enough, and certainly in the power of the Governor, that in the event that the circumstances go beyond that 10 miles, that we certainly could react to.

We upgrade our relicensing procedures to formally include seismic safety criteria and standards that directly relate to earthquake hazard.

If a nuclear power plant in this country faced a full blackout similar to what we have seen at the Fukushima facility, in your opinion, would we have a few days before we might see the fuel rods degrade and therefore witness harmful…

I would not anticipate fuel damage after 48 hours.

I do believe the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone is the appropriate planning standard for us.

there is a responsibility for all of us to work together to make sure that we fully implement the lessons that we learn.

everything I do I know I could do better. I think that is true for all of us and it remains true of the nuclear industry.