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

Hiroyuki UCHIDA

Mayor, Iwaki city

Satoru YAMAKUCHI / Moderator

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

11:05 - 11:20
Summary of DAY 1

Hajimu YAMANA

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

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

Kazuo YASHIRO

Managing Director, TechnicalStrategy 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

Independent Consultant

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

Edwin MATTHEWS

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

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

Gregory SOSSON

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

14:00 - 14:25
Large scale fuel debris retrieval work incorporating site safety (tentative)

Kenji SHIMIZU

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

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 (tentative)

Kouhei IWANAGA

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

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

Takumi SAITO / Facilitator

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

Naoto IIZUKA / Panelist

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

Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)

Edwin MATTHEWS / Panelist

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

Gregory SOSSON / Panelist

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

Toyoshi FUKETA / Panelist

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

16:25 - 16:40
Wrap-up

Mike WEIGHTMAN

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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