IRID WILL HOST WORKSHOP ON FUKUSHIMA FUEL DEBRIS RFI UPDATE

The International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID) along with the Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI) will host a workshop on April 25 in Tokyo that will discuss the results of the Request For Information that IRID issued in last year on innovative approaches to fuel debris removal, as well as the path forward for the Request for Proposal. The Japanese government formed IRID as a way to reach out to the international decommissioning community for help with the Fukushima cleanup, especially after Tokyo Electric Power Company, the corporation responsible for the cleanup, suffered notorious setbacks in completing the decommissioning. The RFI received over 200 responses, and the next step in the process calls for companies to submit the RFP sometime this summer. Seating at the workshop is limited to 200 people, so a limit of two people from a company can participate, IRID said.