joshikai in fukushima for future scientists

Joshikai in Fukushima for Future Scientists

International Mentoring Workshop in Science, Engineering and Decommissioning

2-3 August 2019 Fukushima, Japan

Programme and Speaker Biographies

Nuclear Damage Compensation andDecommissioning Facilitation Corporation

Commutan Fukushima – Fukushima Prefectural Center for Environmental Creation

JOSHIKAI IN FUKUSHIMA FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS: INTERNATIONAL MENTORING WORKSHOP IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND DECOMMISSIONING

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Workshop venue

Commutan Fukushima – Fukushima Prefectural Center for Environmental Creation

10-2 Fukasaku, Miharu, Tamura District, Fukushima 963-7700, Japan

Commutan Fukushima 1st floor 売店

コミュタン職員事務室 ShopCommutan Fukushima Office トイレ

Rest Room

更衣室 ELChanging

RoomStairs

展示室

Exhibition room→

多目的ラウンジ

Multipurpose Lounge

2 階へ階段

To the 2nd floor Stairs

コミュタン受付

Commutan Receprion

入口

Entrance

エレベーター

↑

階段

昼食会場

Lunch Room

ホール

Main Hall


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Foreword

Developing skills and promoting the advancement of women are a common issue in the world, and our country is no exception. In Japan, the ratio of female researchers is 16.2%, standing at the minimum level internationally. Promoting the advancement of women, particularly in the science and technology fields, is regarded as a big challenge and one the government is committed to achieving. It is an important task to secure diverse human resources by facilitating this career development of women in the science and technology sectors in order to steadily proceed with the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which is a big challenge towards the restoration of Fukushima as well.

How much time will be needed to change society? In 2007, the ratio of German female researchers was just 16%, about the same as the present ratio of Japan. However, it rose to 27% in 2015, 9 years later. In the U.K., the ratio was 26% in 2007 and it rose to 38% in 2015. Nine years seems a long time, but it takes about 10 years to go to college and acquire a PhD. Suppose that you choose a career as a researcher in the science and technology areas, as a high school student, 10 years from then is just at the time you would begin your career. I suggest that you, as high school students, think now about what it means to get actively involved in the science and technology fields. It is the best time for you, high school students, to choose a specific future career. And you have ample time during which society will drastically change so that women will be able to realise their full potential freely.

Eminent figures from the science and technology fields, active in all sorts of industries, will be participating in the “Joshikai in Fukushima for Future Scientists: International Mentoring Workshop in Science, Engineering and Decommissioning” as mentors to discuss these issues with you. Mentors at the workshop include not only those who have pursued a career as a researcher but also those who have pursued careers as corporate citizens, engineers or as government officials. According to a survey conducted by the Cabinet Office, images of science and technology professionals are mostly comprised of four professions: “scholar”, “physician/medical doctor”, “researcher”, and “teacher”. In fact, diverse careers are available and open to you.

Research has its own rewards. Selecting a course in science and technology is not limited to research. Various possibilities exist, many of which can bring about changes in society. In addition, this is not limited to the science and technology fields, but certainly there exist life events unique to women. They may cause a slightly difficult problem at times, but there should be also a wisdom to enjoyably and positively overcome the challenge. We would like you, high school girls, to make use of this opportunity to get the wisdom and experience from mentors and learn from them proactively at all times.

I hope that the Joshikai in Fukushima will be a life-changing experience to transform your future into a better one and we would greatly appreciate it if it could spread from here in Fukushima to Japan and to the world.

Hajimu Yamana President, Nuclear Damage Compensation and

Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation


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Foreword

In today’s society, the population of men and women is essentially equal in terms of numbers. However, in the domain of science and technology, which is part of the same society, this is not the case. Despite the fact that many female primary and secondary school students outperform their male counterparts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects, female students tend not to choose the science and engineering pathway when entering university. This reduced pipeline manifests in the professional world. In many countries, the women who do pursue science and engineering careers often face daunting societal pressures and the practical challenges of managing professional careers and family obligations. In the end, women in science and engineering fields are fewer than might be expected, often receive less income for their work, and are vastly underrepresented in leadership positions.

For many countries, this also represents a tremendous loss in opportunity and productivity. It makes sense for many nations to take additional steps to reduce the gender gap. We at the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) believe in the importance of such efforts because many of our member countries are finding that fewer young people are studying science, mathematics and engineering than was the case in previous generations, and this has a direct effect on the capabilities of our member countries in areas of science and technology relevant to our mission. Such a skills shortage would have serious implications for the future and it is, therefore, essential to ensure that all young people, including young women, have the opportunity to explore careers in science and technology. Addressing the issues facing our modern world now and in the future require more scientists and engineers, not fewer. We must do more to address the persistent loss of talented women from these fields. Doing so will benefit our economies, our societies and our planet.

One way to ensure the necessary, skilled workforce for the future is to engage young scientists in attractive and innovative research projects. The NEA is pursuing this approach through its NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Initiative.

Still, more needs to be done to enable more young women to take advantage of efforts such as NEST. In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has made it a priority to bring more women into Japan’s workforce and to encourage them to explore opportunities in STEM fields. Following the Prime Minister’s lead, the NEA is co-operating with the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) to take another step towards giving young Japanese women what may, for some, prove to be a life-changing experience at the two-day workshop, “Joshikai in Fukushima for Future Scientists: International Mentoring Workshop in Science, Engineering and Decommissioning”. Approximately 40-50 female students from Japanese high schools will have the unique experience of talking in an informal and personal manner with ten highly accomplished women from Japan and from three additional countries about the lives, careers and experiences of women in science and engineering. As the event title indicates, the workshop this year, building on success and observations from previous ones in 2017 and 2018, will be held in Fukushima for the first time, which is all the more crucial for its people and in the


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context of its ongoing decommissioning work, recalling that an appropriate level of workforce and expertise should be secured and further developed who will be professionally engaged in the decommissioning in Fukushima. This year’s workshop will also welcome a delegation from the United States, who will share their thoughts and experiences.

We recognise that workshops such as this will not close the STEM gender gap overnight. It is our strong belief, however, that if even a modest portion of the young women who participate in this workshop find the encouragement to become science and technology professionals, it will have been a very worthwhile effort.

William D. Magwood, IV Director-General, Nuclear Energy Agency


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Workshop programme

Day 1 – Friday, 2 August 2019

8:30-9:15 (Bus Transfer)

9:15-9:30 Registration

Commutan Fukushima

Opening Session and Keynote Lectures

9:30-11:00, Main Hall

Open to the public until 10:40. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

9:30-9:50 Opening Remarks

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

William D. Magwood, IV, Director-General, Nuclear Energy Agency

Tatsuya Shinkawa, Director-General for Nuclear Accident Disaster Response, Director-General for International Energy and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

Shigeaki Tsunoyama, Director, Commutan Fukushima - Fukushima Prefectural Center for Environmental Creation

9:50-10:40 Keynote Lectures

Kimiko Murofushi, President, Ochanomizu University

Rosa L. Yang, EPRI Fellow, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Video Message

Hélène Langevin-Joliot, distinguished nuclear physicist and granddaughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie

10:40-10:50 Orientation for Students

NDF staff

10:50-11:00 Group Photo

11:00-11:05 Break


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Mentors’ Lectures

11:05-12:35, Main Hall

Open to the public. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

11:05-12:35 Each mentor will give a ten-minute presentation about her research, career, and how science and technology can contribute to creating a better society.

Miyoko O. Watanabe, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Office for Diversity and Inclusion, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Yumiko Hata, Director for International Issues/Waste Management of Fukushima Daiichi NPS, Nuclear Accident Response Office, Agency of Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

Malgorzata Sneve, Director, Regulatory Cooperation Programme, Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA)

Chikako Hirose, Associate Senior Researcher, Research Unit I, Research and Development Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Ribka (Rebecca) Tadesse, Head of the Division of Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning (RWMD, NEA)

Yumiko Kumano, Group Manager, Nuclear Business Planning Group, Nuclear Safety Management Department, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.

Haidy Tadros, Director General, Directorate Nuclear Cycle and Facilities Regulation, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)

Narie Sasaki, Associate Professor, Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University/Associate Professor, Institute for Human Life Innovation, Ochanomizu University

Shoko Shimazaki, Section Manager, DMC Development Section, NICONICO Business Division, DWANGO Co., Ltd.

12:35-13:30 Lunch Break


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Group Discussion

13:30-17:00, Conference Room

Consecutive translation will be provided.

13:30-15:00 Session 1

Mentors and students will be divided into groups.

15:00-15:20 Break

15:20-16:50 Session 2

Mentors and students will be reshuffled.

16:50-17:00 Initial Feedback from Co-chairs




Reception

18:00-19:30, Hotel Hamatsu

Mentors’ Co-ordination Meeting

19:45-20:30, Hotel Hamatsu


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Day 2 – Saturday, 3 August 2019


Insights from US Participants 9:30-10:00, Main Hall


9:30-9:40 Aleshia Duncan, Foreign Affairs Specialist, US Department of Energy

9:40-10:00 Presentation by US students

10:00-10:10 Break

Group Work 10:10-11:10, Conference Room

Consecutive translation will be provided.

10:10-11:10 Preparation for Report

Mentors and students will stay in the same groups as Session 2. Students will be supported by mentors for preparation.

11:10-11:20 Break

Reporting and Closing Session 11:20-12:50, Main Hall


11:20-12:20 Report from Students Groups

Each student group will report their views (seven minutes for each).

12:20-12:40 Report from Co-chairs



12:40-12:50 Closing Remarks for the Mentoring Workshop

William D. Magwood, IV, Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency

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

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:00 Commutan Fukushima Facility Tour (Optional for students)


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Speaker biographies

Opening session

Tatsuya Shinkawa, Director-General for Nuclear Accident Disaster Response, Director-General for International Energy and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

Mr Tatsuya Shinkawa is the Director-General for Nuclear Accident Disaster Response and Director-General for International Energy and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan. He worked on electricity policy, nuclear safety policy and economic and industrial policy in METI from 1991. He was the Director for Human Resource Policy in METI from 2008 to 2010, the Chief Representative, Representative Office in Washington, D.C. of New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) from 2010 to 2013, the Director, Nuclear Accident Response Office, the Agency for Natural Resource and Energy (ANRE) in METI from 2013 to 2015, the Director, Market Surveillance Division, Electricity Market Surveillance Commission (EMSC) in METI from 2015 to 2016, and the Director, Policy Planning Division, Electricity and Gas Market Surveillance Commission (EGC) in METI from 2016 to 2018. He earned his Masters degree at Kyusyu University, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Japan in 1991. He was a visiting researcher in Stanford University in the United States from 1999 to 2000.


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Opening session

Shigeaki Tsunoyama, Director, Commutan Fukushima – Fukushima Prefectural Center for Environmental Creation

Dr Tsunoyama is a former President of the University of Aizu and has his doctorate degree in engineering. After graduating from the Physics, Science Department, the University of Tokyo, he joined the Research Institute for Japan Nuclear Enterprise Co., Ltd. (later merged with Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation). After being engaged in the nuclear power field for many years, he became a professor at the Academia-Industrial Collaboration Center established in 2002 by the Academia-Industrial Collaboration Concept of the University of Aizu, and concurrently assumed the post of Vice President the following year. He served as the President from April 2006 through March 2013, and served as an advisor from April 2014 through March 2015. He has been in his present post since October, 2015.


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Opening session

Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Director of Research Emeritus, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Dr Langevin-Joliot is the daughter of Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot, and the granddaughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, all of whom were Nobel Prize recipients. Dr Langevin-Joliot is a distinguished nuclear physicist, doctor of science and Director of Research Emeritus, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). In 1957 she contributed to the inauguration of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Orsay, France, which was created following her mother’s initiative. In 1979 she became the Institute’s Director, a position which she kept until 1983. From 1981 to 1985, she served as Chair of the CNRS Committee for Nuclear Physics. She was a member of the Advisory Committee for Science and Technology to the Parliamentary Office of France from 1985 to 1992. In 2012, Dr Langevin-Joliot was awarded France’s highest honour, the Legion of Honour. Throughout her career and into retirement, Dr Langevin-Joliot has continuously encouraged young women to pursue scientific careers, using her mother and grandmother as prime examples of women who overcame challenges to succeed in their professional careers.


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Co-chairs

Kimiko Murofushi, President, Ochanomizu University

Dr Kimiko Murofushi, currently serving as President of Ochanomizu University, began working there in 1983. She became a professor, specialising in Life Science and Science Education, in 1996, after working as an Assistant Professor and Lecturer. She was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2002 and also served as a Director and Vice President in 2004. Also, she conducted promotional activities to improve people’s science literacy and supported girls’ education in developing countries while striving to establish Japan’s first “Genetic Counseling Course” as a graduate course. She became a Professor Emeritus in 2013, and assumed her current position in 2015. In 1999 and 2005, she served as a Visiting Professor at the Université Louis Pasteur (now known as Université de Strasbourg), and received the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (the Order of Academic Palms) in 2013 for her contribution to promoting interactions between researchers and students in Japan and France. She is a Council Member of the Science Council of Japan, a working group member of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry/Cabinet Office, Board Member, Governors of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Member of the Board of Bridgestone Corporation, Auditor of the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, and Vice-Chairperson of the Japan Association of National Universities. She earned her PhD in Medicine from the University of Tokyo.


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Co-chairs

Rosa L. Yang, EPRI Fellow, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)*

Dr Rosa Yang is a recognised nuclear industry leader with a proven track record engaging the support and co-operation of US and international utilities, manufacturers, research organisations and regulators to resolve key industry issues. A Fellow of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Dr Yang is charged with leading EPRI’s engagement with International member organisations. Her mission is to foster relationships, develop collaborative research programmes and enhance technology transfer to enhance the safety and performance of nuclear plants worldwide. Dr Yang’s earlier contribution in EPRI focused on research activities leading to extending the cycle length and improving reliability for nuclear fuel under increasingly demanding operating conditions. Her most important contribution to the nuclear industry was the creation of the Fuel Reliability Program, with active participants from more than 10 countries. This programme successfully resolved several critical industry issues impacting nuclear fuel reliability. Additionally, it conducted first-of-a-kind tests on loss-of-coolant accidents (LOCA) in hotcells with participation from international utilities and regulators. The results of these tests provided the technical basis for the current LOCA criteria. As Director of the Materials and Chemistry, Dr Yang guided a broad research portfolio enhancing scientific understanding of boiling and pressurised water reactor materials ageing and degradation, water chemistry control, fuel reliability, spent fuel storage, nuclear waste disposal and radiation control. As Vice President of Technology Innovation, Dr Yang re-focused resources towards high-reward strategic areas including carbon capture, energy storage, renewables, sensors, nano-technology and advanced materials. She actively promoted innovation and initiated a breakthrough programme aimed at pursuing game-changing technological advancements in the electricity industry: e.g. the use of robotics revolutionising transmission line inspection, and new advanced resins significantly reducing radiation dose and shortening outages for nuclear plants. Before joining EPRI, Dr Yang worked for General Electric developing the company’s fuel design and licensing code, leading several international fuel testing programmes.

Dr Yang earned her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the National Tsing Hua University.

* She will also serve as a mentor.


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Co-chairs

Miyoko O. Watanabe, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Office for Diversity and Inclusion, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)*

Dr Watanabe has a long experience of research in semiconductor physics at Toshiba R&D Center in Japan, and she conducted her physics research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, Canada, from 1986 to 1988 and as a Visiting Researcher at Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory at the University of Birmingham, U.K., in 1997. Returning to Toshiba, she served there at different positions, including that of Executive Quality Leader at Innovation Division in the headquarters. She has been working at JST since 2013. She also worked as Council Member of Science and Technology Council at Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from 2012 to 2017, as Chairperson of Japan Women Engineers Forum from 2012 to 2014, and as Auditor at National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan from 2013 to 2015. She has also been Council Member of Science Council of Japan (SCJ) since 2011, and Vice President of SCJ in charge of science and society since October 2017. She worked as Chair of the Committee on Comprehensive and Synthetic Engineering in SCJ from 2014 to 2017. Dr Watanabe has been a member of the Specialist Committee on Priority Policy in Council for Gender Equality of Cabinet Office of Japan since 2014. She was the Chair of both the Science Agora in 2015 and 2016 and the Gender Summit 10 in Tokyo in 2017. She was also appointed STEM girls ambassador by Cabinet Office in June, 2018, and has been active to promote STEM girls activity.

* She will be the acting Co-Chair from Japan and also serve as a mentor.


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Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

Hajimu Yamana, President

Dr Hajimu Yamana took up his duty as President of Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation from September 2015. He is especially engaged in the planning of the Technical Strategic Plan and Mid-and-Long-Term Roadmap for the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. He started his career at Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (now the Japan Atomic Energy Agency) as a reprocessing chemical engineer at Tokai Reprocessing Plant in 1981. He was engaged in reprocessing management and development of advanced recycling system until March of 1996. In April of 1996, he became an assistant professor at the Research Reactor Institute of Kyoto University and became a professor in 2002. His research interests are the radiochemistry of actinide elements and nuclear fuel recycling engineering. After the Great East Japan earthquake, in 2013, he became a President of International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID), developing the techniques for decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi. In 2014, he moved to the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation and has been engaged as President from 2015.He holds a PhD in Engineering from Tohoku University. He is a Dr Prof Emeritus of Kyoto University and a fellow of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan.


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Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)

Mitsuo Matsui, Executive Director

Mr Mitsuo Matsui took up his duties as an Executive Director of Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation on September 2018. He started his career at The Chugoku Electric Power Co. Inc. in 1970. Then he was placed in the Operation Section of Mizushima Thermal Power Station as an operator. After he moved to Shimane Nuclear Power Station, he built up his career till January 1997 working at Nuclear Power department. In April of 2002, he was appointed as Superintendent of Shimane Nuclear Power Station. He returned to headquarters as General Manager of the Nuclear Power Construction Department in 2004, then held senior posts and served as an Executive Vice President, General Manager of Power Generation Division in 2009. After retirement, he became an Adviser of The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. In 2014, he appointed to a Chairman of WANO Tokyo Centre. Mr Matsui holds Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Kyoto University. Also he holds a qualification of Chief Engineer of Reactors.


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Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)

William D. Magwood, IV, Director-General

Mr Magwood took up his duties as Director-General of the NEA on 1 September 2014. He has extensive experience in both the regulatory and developmental aspects of nuclear energy, including at the international level. From 2010 to 2014, he served as one of the five Commissioners appointed by the US President and confirmed by the US Senate to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). While a commissioner, he advocated the importance of nuclear regulatory independence and the necessity of maintaining strong, credible and technically sound nuclear regulation in the United States and all countries that use nuclear power. Prior to his appointment at the NRC, from 2005 to 2010 he provided independent strategic and policy advice to US and international clients on energy, environmental and technology policy issues. During this time, he also sat on various advisory groups and provided technical and policy advice to members of the US Congress on nuclear research, education and climate change policy. From 1998 to 2005, Mr Magwood was Director of Nuclear Energy at the US Department of Energy (DOE). During his tenure, he launched several important initiatives including the US Nuclear Power 2010 programme and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF). He was also actively involved in the work of the NEA, serving as a Steering Committee bureau member from 1999 to 2003, and as Chair in 2004 and early 2005. Prior to his experience at the DOE, Mr Magwood managed electric utility research and nuclear policy programmes at the Edison Electric Institute in Washington, DC, and was a scientist at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr Magwood, a US national, holds Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and English from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pittsburgh.


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Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)

Yeonhee Hah, Head of the Division of Radiological Protection and Human Aspects of Nuclear Safety (RP-HANS, NEA)

Ms Hah took up her duties at the NEA on 7 September 2015. The Division of Radiological Protection and Human Aspects of Nuclear Safety focuses on radiological protection principles, regulation and application, and on the human aspects of nuclear safety in such areas as safety culture, human and organisational factors, personnel training policies and practices, and safety-related public communication and stakeholder engagement. The division gives technical and administrative support to the Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH), facilitating the execution of the programme of work, and assists NEA safety-related committees, including the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA), the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) in the areas of responsibility of the respective divisions. Ms Hah is an expert in international co-operation with 20 years’ experience working for the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS). She has extensive expertise in areas such as international co-operation, public communication, education and training, regulatory policy and development, and interaction with various stakeholders. From 2010 to April 2014, Ms Hah chaired the CNRA Working Group on Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations. Ms Hah, a Korean national, holds a Master's degree in Communications from Ewha Women's University.


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US delegation

Ms Aleshia Duncan, Foreign Affairs Specialist, US Department of Energy

Ms Aleshia Duncan has served in various capacities in the international nuclear energy policy arena. She is currently a Foreign Affairs Specialist at the US Department of Energy, supporting the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, managing its bilateral and multilateral relationships with countries across the globe, most notably Japan. In 2016, she joined the NEA as the Policy Adviser to the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC), where she coordinated the policies and programmes of its 65 member countries and 4 international organisations with the common goal of the safe, reliable use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. She continued in that role in 2017 in addition to serving as the Senior Advisor for Multilateral Coordination and Secretary of the Steering Committee at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in France, until her departure at the end of 2018. Prior to that, she served as a Foreign Affairs Specialist at the US Department of Energy in the Office of Nuclear Energy, supporting the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Policy and Coordination, managing its bilateral and multilateral relationships with countries across the globe. From October 2010 to December 2013, Ms Duncan was posted at the US Embassy in Tokyo, Japan as the Director for Nuclear Operations and served as a Diplomat in the capacity of Energy Attaché. Ms Duncan had the opportunity to liaise with the Government of Japan regularly before, during and after its change in nuclear policies and was awarded the Secretary’s Honor Award for her efforts in supporting the coordination of the United States crisis response. Ms Duncan also has an extensive background in human resources in the areas of employee and labour relations, performance management, employee discipline and contract negotiation and administration.

Ms Duncan holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts in Community Counseling from Trinity University in Washington, DC.


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Mentors*

Yumiko Hata, Director for International Issues/Waste Management of Fukushima Daiichi NPS, Nuclear Accident Response Office, Agency of Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

Ms Yumiko Hata is currently in charge of international issues and waste management of Fukushima Daiichi NPS at the Nuclear Accident Response Office, Agency of Natural Resources and Energy, METI. She started her career at METI and mainly engaged with international trade issues, energy and environmental issues. She was Deputy Director in the Economic Partnership Division from 2005 to 2007, Renewable Energy Division from 2007 to 2008, Chemical Safety Office from 2008 to 2009, Trade Control Division from 2013 to 2014, Personnel Division from 2015 to 2016, and Counsellor at the Office of Global Communications, Prime Minister’s Office from 2016 to 2018. She graduated from the Graduate School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2005. She studied organic chemistry (catalytic chemistry) at the University of Tokyo and acquired an MS in 1999 and a BS in 1997.

* In alphabetical order.


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Mentors

Chikako Hirose, Associate Senior Researcher, Research Unit I, Research and Development Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Ms Chikako Hirose currently deals with space probe systems and trajectory design at Research Unit I of the Research and Development Directorate in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. After she joined the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in 2004, she was assigned to the Consolidated Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Department where she was in charge of earth satellite orbits and measures against space debris. She was responsible for developing, for the first time in Japan, an operational system that enables satellites to avoid a collision if space debris approaching them in orbit is detected. After that, she was transferred to the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in August 2010 and involved in a project of the Venus Climate Orbiter, “Akatsuki”. After the failure of the first attempt of Akatsuki’s Venus Orbit Insertion in December 2010, she worked on the trajectory design that enabled the orbiter to approach Venus again to re-enter its orbit. In December 2015, “Akatsuki” was successfully placed into orbit. This success made “Akatsuki” Japan’s first planetary orbiter. She stayed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2017 as a visiting researcher for one year engaging in trajectory analysis of future missions in NASA. She has worked on “Hayabusa 2” and other future missions since 2018 after coming back to Japan. She studied at Ochanomizu University completing her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, in 2002, and her graduate studies in the Department of Advanced Science, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences in 2004.


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Mentors

Yumiko Kumano, Group Manager, Nuclear Business Planning Group, Nuclear Safety Management Department, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.

Ms Yumiko Kumano, works for the Nuclear Safety Supervisory Department at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, where she examines operation plans of nuclear power plants, and maps out or co-ordinates business plans, playing the role of the responsible personnel who controls the nuclear power section. She joined the Tokyo Electric Power Company in 2001 and was assigned to a position at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station where she gained field experience in the maintenance section. After one year, she was transferred to the Tokyo headquarters to examine issues around radioactive waste disposal. For three and a half years from 2012, she worked for International Atomic Energy Agency, engaging in planning international rules for radioactive waste disposal and preparing reports on the Fukushima Daiichi accident. She has been committed to organisational reform of the nuclear power section since returning to Japan. She majored in Nuclear Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and obtained a PhD in engineering in 2001. Her primary area of expertise is radioactive waste disposal.


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Mentors

Narie Sasaki, Associate Professor, Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University/Associate Professor, Institute for Human Life Innovation, Ochanomizu University

Dr Narie Sasaki currently works as an associate professor simultaneously at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University and the Institute for Human Life Innovation, Ochanomizu University. She is engaged in support activities for women specialising in science and technology while conducting research on mitochondria. After graduating from Ochanomizu University with a bachelor’s degree in science in 1993, she went on to the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo, receiving a PhD in Science in 1998. She is married and currently a mother of one girl. After working as a postdoctoral researcher, research associate and lecturer at Ochanomizu University, she moved to Nagoya University, accompanying her husband who accepted a job transfer offer in 2007. She was committed to establishing an on-campus nursery and after school care centre (the first one in Japan) as a Specially-Appointed Associate Professor of Center for Gender Equality at Nagoya University. She has strived to increase the number of “Rikejo (female students and workers specialising in science and technology)” and female researchers, which was covered in Science, a US science journal.


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Mentors

Shoko Shimazaki, Section Manager, DMC Development Section, NICONICO Business Division, DWANGO Co., Ltd.

Ms Shoko Shimazaki is currently in charge of the development management of Niconico Video programmes in DWANGO Co., Ltd. She joined the company in 2009 as an engineer and was engaged in the development of e-books. She moved to CyberAgent, Inc. in 2012 and was responsible for the development of advertising business there. She was rehired by DOWANGO in 2016 after giving birth in 2014 and maternity leave and now develops Niconico Video programmes while leaving her son at the in-house nursery. She graduated from the Tokyo University of Science in 2009.


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Mentors

Malgorzata Sneve, Director, Regulatory Cooperation Programme, Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA)

Ms Sneve has been working for more than 24 years at the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (formerly the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority) in Norway on issues related to the regulatory supervision of nuclear legacy sites and related problems. As the Director of the Regulatory Cooperation Programme she is responsible for implementation of co-operation on regulatory and legislative aspects related to nuclear safety, radiation protection and environmental protection, with special focus on nuclear and radiological legacy problems, as well as radioactive waste management. She has more than 20 years experience in international co-operation as a part of the Norwegian government's international strategy for environmental and human health protection and nuclear safety. The education background is in physics, and she is experienced in practical management of co-operation with different national authorities and organisations, military and civilian, within nuclear safety, environmental, health and radiation protection in Russia, Ukraine and central Asian countries. Her involvement in bi-lateral co-operation, also includes co-ordination and direct co-operation with other Scandinavian, British, French, and US experts and institutions, as well as international organisations like the IAEA, OECD/NEA, EU, NATO and others. She has good understanding of wide range of technical, social and political issues related to the radiation and nuclear safety. Ms Sneve was elected as a member of ICRP TG 98, where issues related to regulation of all type of legacy problems are addressed. In addition, Ms Sneve was elected as a chairman of the NEA Expert Group for Legacy Management (EGLM). Since 2016 she also chairs the European and Central Asian Safety Network, EuCAS, which is part of the Global Nuclear Safety and Security Network, GNSSN of the IAEA. She has also served as chair of the IAEA Regulatory Supervision of Legacy Sites Forum, and is a member of several international projects and activities. Ms Sneve is fluent in four languages and to date has published nearly 100 different publications.


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Ribka (Rebecca) Tadesse, Head of the Division of Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning (RWMD, NEA)

Ms Tadesse recently joined the NEA and is responsible for advancing information exchange and studies in the fields of radioactive waste management, nuclear facility decom-missioning and legacy management. Prior to joining NEA, Ms Tadesse served as the Chief of the Radiation Protection Branch in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Ms Tadesse has over 27 years of domestic and international experience in the operation and radiation safety of research reactors, fuel fabrication facilities, nuclear power plants and biomedical research facilities. Ms Tadesse also served as Senior Policy Advisor for Commissioners and Senior Operational Assistant in the Executive Directors Office. In addition, Ms Tadesse was the Chief of the Material Decommissioning Branch, where she was responsible for managing the licensing and the oversight of complex decommissioning nuclear facilities. She also held numerous positions in the Reactor, Material and Fuels area at the NRC as Health Physicist, Project Manager and Technical Assistant to the Director. Prior to her appointment with NRC, she worked for private industry and Federal Government as a Radiation Physicist at Common Wealth Edison Nuclear Corporation, General Atomics defense Contractor Company, and the US Food and Drug Administration. Ms Tadesse is a US national and holds a BS degree in Radiation Physics from Purdue University and an MS degree in Environmental Science/Policy from Johns Hopkins University.


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Haidy Tadros, Director General, Directorate Nuclear Cycle and Facilities Regulation, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)

Ms Tadros has been with the CNSC since 2006 and has held several technical and leadership roles in the areas of radiation protection, integrated management systems, organisational change management and licensing new nuclear technologies. In her current role as Director General of the Directorate of Nuclear Cycle and Facilities Regulation, she oversees the CNSC’s nuclear fuel cycle regulatory programmes, which span a broad range of complex facilities from uranium mines and mills, uranium and nuclear substances processing facilities, research reactors, to waste management and decommissioned facilities. Ms Tadros has been an active practitioner in science as a published researcher, radiation protection specialist and currently as a federal public servant and regulator. Her over 25 years of professional experience began with a career in research, and while working, she completed a Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences. Prior to joining the CNSC, Ms Tadros was a Radiation Safety Specialist at The Ottawa Hospital’s Radiation Safety and Health Physics Department. Given her current role and responsibilities on decommissioning and waste management topics, Ms Tadros has participated in various national and international fora, including: the Canadian Nuclear Society conference on Nuclear Waste Management, Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation; the International Conference for Geological Repositories; and the Waste Management Symposia. Ms Tadros was also the alternate Canadian Head at the IAEA Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management 2018. Recently, Ms Tadros was elected and has the honour of being the first Chair of the newly formed NEA Committee on Decommissioning of nuclear installations and legacy management (CDLM).

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