DAY2 Program mainly for Technical Experts

Date
August 26, 2024
Theme
Current Status and Future Outlook of Fuel Debris Retrieval

Timetable

10:00
Open for registration
11:00
Opening
11:00 - 11:05
Opening Remarks

Hajimu YAMANA

President, Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation

11:05 - 11:10
Guest Speeches

TBC

City of Iwaki

11:10 - 11:40
Investigation inside the primary containment vessel (PCV) and trial retrieval from the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 (tentative)

Naoto Iizuka

Chief Technology Officer for D&D, Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC), TEPCO Holdings Inc.

11:40 - 12:05
Report by Sub-committee for the evaluation of fuel debris retrieval methods organized by NDF (tentative)

Toyoshi Fuketa

Chairman of the Sub-Committee for the Evaluation of Fuel Debris Retrieval Methods,
Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

12:05 - 12:20
Status of legacy management of former nuclear sites in the United States (tentative)

Carmelo Melendez

Director, Office of Legacy Management
US Department of Energy

12:20 - 12:35
Environmental management in the US, cleaning-up projects of US sites and implications to Japan (tentative)

Jeffrey Avery

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Environmental Management
US Department of Energy

12:35 - 14:00
Break / Technical Poster Session
14:00 - 14:20
Long-term challenges for the decommissioning and the characteristics of the Fukushima Daiichi (tentative)

Koichi Tamagawa

Executive Director, Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

14:20 - 16:15
Panel Discussion

Facilitator: Takumi Saito

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

Panelist: TBC

Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)

Panelist: Naoto Iizuka

Chief Technology Officer for D&D, Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC),
TEPCO Holdings Inc.

Panelist: Kosuke Ono

Managing Director, Decommissioing Strategy Office
Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

Panelist: Gregory Sosson

Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations, Office of Environmental Management,
US Department of Energy

Panelist: Paul Dickman

President, World Council on Isotopes. Emeritus Senior Policy Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Panelist: Melanie Brownridge

Chief R&D Officer, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), UK

16:15 - 16:25
Wrap up

Mike Weightman

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