calls on the commission to redefine the adequate protection in light of what we have learned from cooper shima. for those of you who are not steeped in parlance, adequate protection is likely not a familiar term. ultimately, the statutory responsibility as safety. is the touchstone of what we do as regulators and it is the standard of safety that the nrc must require of nuclear power plants and other licensees in order to operate. over the last 25 years, there have been a few occasions where the commission has deemed it necessary to revisit the standard and redefine what safety means,. we did so after 9/11, and now the task force, established by the commission, believes we should do so again, given the inside to to push him up plant has provided about rare catastrophic events. the decision on another to redefine the core definition of safety is one for the commission to make it, but by examining the recommendations, it is clear that if fukushima was an unacceptable accident and we need to take strong steps to ensure that kind of accident does not happen in the united states in. as we consider