DAY2 Program mainly for Technical Experts

Date
August 4, 2025
Theme
On-site Safety to promote Largeーscale Work at Fukushima Daiichi(1F) D&D

Timetable

10:00
Open for registration
11:00
Opening remarks
11:00 - 11:05
Guest speech

Satoru YAMAKUCHI / Moderator

Profile

Managing Director, Program Supervision & Support Office,
Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

11:05 - 11:20
Summary of DAY 1

Hajimu YAMANA

Profile

President,
Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

11:20 - 11:45
Current Status and Future Challenges of Fuel Debris Retrieval

Kazuo YASHIRO

Profile

Managing Director, Technical Strategy Group, Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

11:45 - 12:10
Transition of TMI-2’s successful Operations Culture to TMI-2’s successful Decontamination/Disassembly/Defueling (DDD) Culture

Gordon R. SKILLMAN

Profile

Independent Consultant

12:10 - 12:35
Managing uncertainty in a complex and hazardous environment: experience with the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo

Edwin MATTHEWS

Profile

Head of Strategy & Technical for the Retrievals Value Stream, Sellafield Ltd.

12:35 - 14:00
Lunch break / Technical poster session
12:45 - 13:10
Special session (Recital hall)

Gregory SOSSON

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Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations, Office of Environmental Management (EM), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

14:00 - 14:25
Key Approaches to Decommissioning for Fuel Debris Retrieval

Kenji SHIMIZU

Profile

Vice President of Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC), Site Superintendent of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and Corporate Officer of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO HD)

14:25- 14:40
Remarks from NEA

William D. MAGWOOD IV

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Director-General, The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA)

14:40 - 15:00
Regulatory overview for the 1F Decommissioning

Kohei IWANAGA

Profile

Director, Office for Accident Measures of the Fukushima-Daiich Nuclear Power Station, Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)

15:00 - 15:10
Break
15:10 - 16:25
Panel discussion

Takumi SAITO / Facilitator

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Professor, Nuclear Professional School, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Naoto IIZUKA / Panelist

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Director of Fuel Debris Retrieval, Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC), and Corporate Officer of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO HD)

Toshiyuki KOGANEYA / Panelist

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Director-General, for Radiation Protection Strategy and Security, Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)

Edwin MATTHEWS / Panelist

Profile

Head of Strategy & Technical for the Retrievals Value Stream, Sellafield Ltd

Gregory SOSSON / Panelist

Profile

Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations, Office of Environmental Management (EM), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Toyoshi FUKETA / Panelist

Profile

Head of Decommissioning, Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

16:25 - 16:40
Wrap-up

Mike WEIGHTMAN

Profile

Independent Nuclear Consultant, MWA Ltd., Former Chief Executive, Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), UK

Access

Iwaki Performing Arts Center Alios "Main Theater"

1-6 Hiramisaki, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima 970-8026, Japan

Registration

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