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USA fleet member Fermi 2 is the only U.S. nuclear power plant with an international Emergency Preparedness Zone.

The 10 miles around Fermi, a Utilities Service Alliance fleet member, reaches into part of Ontario, Canada.

As such, the plant invites its neighbors across Lake Erie to the plant every year or two. In early February, police, fire and emergency response officials from the Town of Amherstburg, along with the town’s mayor and an officer from the Michigan State Police visited Fermi 2.

The group toured Fermi 2’s main control room simulator in the training center then took a tour of the plant, with stops in the plant’s turbine building to see the main generator and to the refuel floor, to see the used fuel pool.

Nicholas Avrakotos, manager of RERP at Fermi, said the site is unique because of its proximity to Canada, and that distinction requires that the plant reach out to our neighbors.

Fermi’s staff maintains communications with emergency management staff in the near-site Canadian police and fire agencies to ensure our responsibility to notify the general public about an event that may be in progress at Fermi,” Avrakotos said. “It is important to maintain relationships with all of our neighbors to ensure the health and safety of the public.”