ATENA Forum 2023
Date and Time

Place

Form of EventFebruary 16, Thursday, 2023
Forum▶ 16:00 ‒ 17:45
Reception ▶ 18:00 ‒ 18:30
Forum▶ Otemachi Mitsui Hall
Reception ▶ Otemachi Mitsui Hall Foyer
1-2-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Otemachi One 3F

Hybrid event that combines onsite attendance
and online distribution using ZOOM Webinar*In order to prevent infection by COVID-19,only those who have received
the invitation letter will be allowed to enter the venue.
Online audience can only participate in the Forum part.

PROGRAM
16:00-16:05

Opening Remarks16:05 -16:15 Greeting message
16:15-16:25

Keynote Speech

16:25-17:40

Panel Discussion

Hiroto Uozumi

President & CEO, ATENA

Shinsuke Yamanaka

Chairman,
The Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan

Maria Korsnick

President & CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute【T h e m e】

ATENA s eﬀorts of enhancing nuclear safety- What have been accomplished andwhat should be pursued from now -【Moderator】

Akira Yamaguchi

Director, Nuclear Safety Research Association【Panelists】

George Apostolakis

Director, Nuclear Risk Research Center（NRRC）,
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

Shinji KinjoDirector, Nuclear Regulation Policy Planning Division,
The Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan

Takao Matsumura

Representative Executive Oﬃcer,
The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

Akio Yamamoto

Professor, Nagoya University

Yoshihiro TomiokaDirector, ATENA

Osamu Sakai

Director, ATENA

17:40-17:45

Closing remarks

18:00-18:30

Reception

Presenters of ATENA forum 2023
Greeting Messages

Keynote Speech

Shinsuke Yamanaka

Maria Korsnick

Chairman,
The Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan

President & CEO,
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

Shinsuke Yamanaka holds a Ph.D. in engineering in November 1989. As a leading
researcher, he dedicated himself to research in the ﬁeld of nuclear engineeringand nuclear fuel engineering and materials, such as fuel safety research related tosevere nuclear reactor accidents. He has contributed to promoting nuclear
regulations and nuclear research as a member of NRAʼ s Nuclear Fuel Safety
Examination Committee and NRAʼ s Technical Committee on Backend, and a
program oﬃcer of MEXTʼ s Nuclear Safety System R&D Project. He was appointed
the Commissioner of NRA in September 2017 and Chairman in September 2022.

Maria Korsnick holds a bachelorʼs degree in nuclear engineering from the Universityof Maryland. She began her career at Constellation Energy Nuclear Group in 1986
and held positions of increasing responsibility, including engineer, operator, manager,
site vice president, corporate vice president, and chief nuclear oﬃcer (CNO) andacting chief executive oﬃcer. Before joining NEI, she was senior vice president ofNortheast Operations for Exelon, responsible for overseeing operation of theCalvert Cliﬀs 1 and 2, R.E. Ginna, and Nine Mile Point 1 and 2 nuclear power plants.
Korsnick is president and chief executive oﬃcer of the Nuclear Energy Institute,the nuclear industryʼ s policy organization in Washington, D.C. Drawing on her
engineering background, hands-on experience in reactor operations and a deep
knowledge of energy policy and regulatory issues, Korsnick aims to increase
understanding of nuclear energyʼ s economic and environmental beneﬁts among
policymakers and the public.

Panel Discussion
Akira Yamaguchi

George Apostolakis

Director,
Nuclear Safety Research Association

Director,
Nuclear Risk Research Center (NRRC),
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

Akira Yamaguchi graduated the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in
1979 and went on to complete the Doctoral Program in the School of Engineering
at the same university to gain a doctorate in 1984. He researched fast reactors at
the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation and assumed aprofessorship at the Department of Sustainable Energy and Environmental
Engineering, School of Engineering, Osaka University in 2005, Professor, School ofEngineering at the University of Tokyo in 2015. After serving as the President of theAtomic Energy Society of Japan, he assumed his current position. His expertise is inreactor engineering and safety engineering. He also acts as the chairman of Nuclear
Energy Subcommittee, Electricity and Gas Industry Committee, Advisory Committee
for Natural Resources and Energy of METI.

George Apostolakis received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics
from the California Institute of Technology in 1973. He served at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles as a professor for 20 years, and then as a professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Nuclear Science andEngineering for 15 years. He was a Commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) from 2010 to 2014. He has been a professor emeritus at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology since 2010 and Director of the Nuclear Risk
Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry since October
2014.

Shinji Kinjo

Takao Matsumura

Director,
Nuclear Regulation Policy Planning Division,
The Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan

Representative Executive Oﬃcer,
Senior Executive Vice President Chief Nuclear Oﬃcer
The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

Shinji Kinjo graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1994,
and the University of Warwick School of Economics in 2005.He joined the Ministryof International Trade and Industry in 1994. After serving as Director of the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident Countermeasures Oﬃce of the Nuclear
Regulation Authority, and Safety Regulation Manager of the Inspection Group ofthe Nuclear Regulation Authority (in charge of monitoring nuclear fuel facilities),
etc., he became Director of the Human Resources Division at the Secretary's Secretariat
in 2019. He has been in his current position since July 2022.

Takao Matsumura graduated from Kyoto University Graduate School of Engineering
Department of Architecture in 1981 and joined The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.
He was appointed as Senior Executive Oﬃcer Acting General Manager, Sales andMarketing Division in 2017; Senior Executive Oﬃcer, General Manager of Community
Energy Division, Oﬃcer of Oﬃce of Renewable Energy Business Strategy in 2018;
Director, Senior Executive Oﬃcer, General Manager of Renewable Energy Division
General Manager of Community Energy Division in June 2019; Director, Senior
Executive Vice President, Chief Nuclear Oﬃcer in October 2019; Representative
Executive Oﬃcer, Senior Executive Vice President in 2020.

Akio Yamamoto

Yoshihiro Tomioka

Professor,Nagoya University

Director,
Atomic Energy Association (ATENA)

Akio Yamamoto graduated from the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Graduate Schoolof Engineering, Kyoto University in 1989. He is a professor at the Graduate School ofEngineering, Nagoya University. His areas of expertise are reactor physics and nuclear safety.
He engages in various activities of Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), such as a teammember of new regulatory requirements for light water reactors, new regulatory requirements
for nuclear fuel facilities, and commission on supervision and evaluation of the Fukushima
Daiichi NPPs, and Chairman of the Nuclear Fuel Safety Examination Committee. He is also aprogram director of the International Nuclear Human Resource Development Initiative ofMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and a Chairman of the Nuclear
Safety Subcommittee and the Standards Committee of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan.
Fellow of American Nuclear Society (ANS) and Board of Director of ANS (2019-2021).

Yoshihiro Tomioka graduated from the Department of Nuclear Engineering,Graduate
School of Engineering,the University of Tokyo in 1985, and joined Tokyo Electric Power
Company (TEPCO). He was received a masterʼ s degree in Business Administration atGraduate School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He appointed
as General Manager of Maintenance Department, Fukushima Daini Nuclear PowerStation, TEPCO in 2006; General Manager of Quality and Safety ManagementDepartment, Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station, TEPCO in 2008; GeneralManager of Nuclear Power Department, The Federation of Electric Power Companies
in 2010; General Manager of Corporate Management & Planning Division, TEPCO in2014; Director and Deputy Secretary General of The Federation of Electric Power
Companies in 2017; Director of Atomic Energy Association in 2018.