Two panels today will address the ongoing remediation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of the March 2011 meltdown.
The first session, “Cleanup of Fukushima NPP – D&D and Waste Management – is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to noon in Room 102BC. It will focus on the decommissioning plan for Fukushima and on foreign assistance for this work. The speakers will be: Mamoru Numata, Special Adviser to Executive Directors, NDF; Kazuhiro Suzuki, Managing Director, NDF; Paul Dickman, Senior Policy Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory; Colin Austin, Senior Vice President for Energy Solutions, EnergySolutions; John Raymont, Founder and Vice Chairman, Kurion; Travis Barker, Chief Technical Officer and Principal Engineer, AVANTech Inc.; and Mayur Jagatia, Director for Business Development, Amec Foster Wheeler.
The second panel, “Fukushima Daiichi NPP – Focus on Offsite Cleanup and International Collaboration,” is scheduled from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 102BC. Along with Numata, speakers will be: Hidetoshi Kuramochi, Section Head, Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Takahiro Nakanishi, Assistant Principal, Fukushima Environmental Safety Center of JAEA; Masamichi Obata, Chief Specialist, Toshiba Corp.; Steve Rima, Vice President, Radiological Services and Engineering, Amec Foster Wheeler; Yoshiharu Hashizume, General Manager, Obayashi Corp.; and Jeff Griffin, Associate Laboratory Director – Environmental and Chemical Process Tech, Savannah River National Laboratory.