【Announcement】

June 30, 2017

International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID)

Executive appointments
International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID) announces theappointments of the executives. The Extraordinary General Meeting and the 47th Boardof Directors Meeting approved the following appointments effective June 30 2017.
【Appointment and retirement of Directors】
1. (Retired) Hirofumi Kenda (President), Atsufumi Yoshizawa (Executive Director)(Newly appointed) Hideo Ishibashi (President), Tadashi Kawamura (Executive Director)
2.

Job descriptions of the Board members
NamePosition

Job descriptionHideo Ishibashi

President

Governance and oversight

Tamio Arai

Vice
President

Tadashi
Kawamura

Executive
Director

Hirotsugu
Fujiwara

Director

Satoshi Ueda

Director

Hiroto Uozumi

Director

Ei Kadokami

Director

Masahiro Seto

Director

Koichi Noda

Director

Governance and oversight
R&D strategy planning (overall responsibilities, specificallyfor cultivating human resource)
R&D management (overall responsibilities, specifically fordeveloping equipment and device)
Governance and oversight
Administration
R&D strategy planning (overall responsibilities, specificallyfor international cooperation and public relations, etc. )R&D management (overall responsibilities)
R&D strategy planning (overall responsibilities, specificallyfor technology strategy, R&D projects management andinformation management)
R&D management (overall responsibilities)
R&D strategy planning (specifically in technology forradioactive wastes treatment and disposal)
R&D management (overall responsibilities)
R&D management (overall responsibilities, specifically intechnology for investigation inside the Primary Containment
Vessel (PCV) and fuel debris retrieval, etc.)
R&D management (overall responsibilities, specifically intechnology for criticality control, and collection, transfer,storage of fuel debris, etc. )R&D strategy planning (overall responsibilities, specificallyfor strategy planning)
R&D strategy planning (overall responsibilities, specificallyfor academia cooperation and technology for radioactiveJun Matsumoto

Director

Goro Yanase

Director

Atsushi Isobe

Auditorwastes treatment and disposal)
R&D management (overall responsibilities, specifically fortechnologies for evaluation of fuel debris inside the reactor,etc.)
R&D strategy planning (overall responsibilities)
R&D management (overall responsibilities)
R&D management (overall responsivities, specifically inrepair technology for inside the PCV and technology for
integrity evaluation of the PCV, etc.)(New Executive biographies)
Name(Date of Birth)

Hideo Ishibashi(September 26, 1951)

Description
June 2017: President, IRID (current)
Fellow, The Japan Atomic Power Company (JAPC) (current)
June 2013: Managing Director, JAPC
June 2011: Director, JAPC (responsibility for research and development)
July 2005: Executive Officer, CHUBU Electric Power Co., Inc. (CHUBU
Electric Power)
Manager of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power General BusinessCenter, CHUBU Electric Power
July 2001: Deputy Manager of Tokyo Office, CHUBU Electric Power
July 1999: Manager and Technical Manager of the Hamaoka Nuclear
Power Station (responsibility for the nuclear reactor),
CHUBU Electric Power
July 1993: Principle Engineer, Department of Nuclear Energy Planning,CHUBU Electric Power
April 1977: Joined CHUBU Electric Power
June 2017: Executive Director, IRID (current)

Tadashi Kawamura

July 2015: Manager of Administration Department (in charge of personnelmanagement), The Federation of Electric Power Companies(April 3, 1963)of Japan (FEPC)
July 2013: President, The Tokyo Electric Generation Company
July 2010: General Manager of Administration Department, Chiba Office,Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc. (TEPCO) (currently,
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated)
July 2007: Manager of Human Resources Unit, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited(JNFL)
October 2003: Group Manager of Personnel Management, Administration
Department, Chiba Office, TEPCO
April 1986: Joined TEPCO