2021
Date and Time

February 18, Thursday, 2021 16:00 〜 18:00

Form of Event

Live Online using ZOOM Webinar

PROGRAM
Opening Remarks

Ei Kadokami

President & CEO, ATENA

Greeting messages

Shinsuke Yamanaka

Commissioner, The Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan

Report of ATENA’s activities

Ei Kadokami

President & CEO, ATENA

Keynote SpeechVideo Messages from Foreign Experts

Maria Korsnick
Richard A. Meserve

President & CEO, Nuclear Energy InstituteExecutive Advisor, Nuclear Risk Research Center（NRRC）,
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

George Apostolakis

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

William Edward Webster Jr.

Chairman, Japan Nuclear Safety Institute (JANSI)

Panel Discussion【Theme】

Activities and interactions of various organizations responsible for improving nuclear safety-Current status and areas for improvement-【Moderator】 Noriko Endo
【Panelists】

Closing remarks

Project Professor, Keio University

Akihiko Kato

Chairman, Nuclear Energy Systems Steering Committee,
The Japan Electrical Manufacturers’ Association

Chiyoji Kurata

Chairman, Chief Nuclear Officer Committee,
The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan

Hiroko Kondo

Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo

Hiromi Yamazaki

President & CEO, Japan Nuclear Safety Institute (JANSI)

Koichi Tamagawa

Director, ATENA

Koichi Tamagawa

Director, ATENA

2021
Greeting Messages

Keynote Speech

Shinsuke Yamanaka

Maria Korsnick

Richard A. Meserve

Commissioner,
The Nuclear Regulation
Authority, Japan

President & CEO,
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

Executive Advisor,
Nuclear Risk Research Center（NRRC）,
Central Research Institute ofElectric Power Industry

Maria Korsnick holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from theUniversity of 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 vicepresident, and chief nuclear officer (CNO) and acting chief executiveofficer. Before joining NEI, she was senior vice president of Northeast
Operations for Exelon, responsible for overseeing operation of the Calvert
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 industry’s policy organization in Washington,D.C. Drawing on her engineering background, hands-on experience inreactor operations and a deep knowledge of energy policy and regulatory
issues, Korsnick aims to increase understanding of nuclear energy’s
economic and environmental benefits among policymakers and the public.

Richard A. Meserve received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford
University in 1976. He chaired the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC) from 1999 to 2003. He has been the chairman of the IAEA International Nuclear Safety Group (INSAG) since 2004, the International Advisorof the Nuclear Regulation Authority since December 2012, and the Advisorof the Nuclear Risk Research Center, Central Research Institute of ElectricPower Industry since October 2014. He was awarded the Order of theRising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from the Government of Japan in 2016.

Shinsuke Yamanaka holds a Ph.D. in engineering in November 1989. As aleading researcher, he dedicated himself to research in the field of nuclear
engineering and radioactive fuel engineering and materials, such as fuel safety
research related to severe nuclear reactor accidents. He has contributed topromoting nuclear regulations and nuclear research as a member of NRA’sNuclear Fuel Safety Examination Committee and NRA’s Technical Committeeon Backend, and a program officer of MEXT’s Nuclear Safety System R&D
Project. He was appointed the Commissioner of NRA in September 2017.

Report of ATENA’s activities
Ei Kadokami
President & CEOof the Atomic Energy
Association (ATENA)
Ei Kadokami graduated from the Department of Applied Nuclear Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University and started his career at
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1978. After serving as the Deputy Head of theKobe Shipyard, he went on to serve concurrently as the Head of the KobeShipyard and as the Deputy General Manager for the Energy and Environment
Domain, Nuclear Energy Systems Headquarters, to then become theExecutive Vice President and the Senior Manager of the Energy and Environment Domain Nuclear Energy Systems in 2014. In 2017, he was appointed theExecutive Vice President and Senior General Manager of the Nuclear Energy
Systems Division of the Power Domain. He was appointed the President &CEO of the Atomic Energy Association (ATENA) in July 2018.

George Apostolakis

William E. Webster Jr.

Head, Nuclear Risk
Research Center（NRRC）,
Central Research Institute ofElectric Power Industry

Chairman,Japan Nuclear
Safety Institute (JANSI)

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

William E Webster Jr holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Villanova University. After served in the US Navy nuclear submarine force, he joined the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in1982. At INPO he participated in over 130 plant and corporate evaluations,
was appointed Executive Vice President in 2013 and retired in 2016.
Currently he serves several roles such as a member of the Duke Energy
Board of Directors and Executive Chairman of the Exelon Generation
NSRB. He joined JANSI in 2017 as Advisor for Executive Leadership andhas been the Chairman since 2018.

Panel Discussion
Noriko EndoAkihiko KatoChiyoji Kurata

Project Professor,
Keio University Global ResearchInstitute

Chairman, Nuclear Energy Systems Steering Committee,
The Japan Electrical Manufacturers’ Association,and Executive Vice President, Head of Nuclear
Energy Systems Division, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Chairman, Chief Nuclear Officer Committee,
Federation of Electric Power Companies ofJapan (FEPC); Director & Executive VicePresident, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.

Mr. Kato graduated from the Department of Energy exchanging Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, and joined Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries, Ltd., in 1984. He was General Manager of the Nuclear Plant
Maintenance Engineering Department in 2008; Chief Manager of the Water
Reactor Project Department, General Manager of the Advanced Plant Safety
Department in 2011; General Manager of the Nuclear Energy Systems Divisionin 2014; General Manager of the Nuclear Energy Systems Division, PowerSystems, in 2017 and Senior Vice President and Senior General Manager ofthe Nuclear Energy Systems Division, in 2018. Mr. Kato has been Executive
Vice President, Head of Nuclear Energy Systems Division, Mitsubishi HeavyIndustries, Ltd., since April 2020, and Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Systems
Steering Committee, the Japan Electrical Manufacturers’ Association, sinceJuly 2019.

Mr. Kurata graduated from the Department of Machinery Engineering, Graduate
School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and joined Chubu Electric PowerCo., Inc. in 1980.He was General Manager of Matsuzaka Customer ServiceOffice, Mie Regional Office, in 1999; General Manager of Maintenance
Department, Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station, in 2004; General Manager ofCommunication Planning & Public Relations Group, Hamaoka Community
Relations Office, Hamaoka Nuclear Power Executive Head-quarters, in 2007;
Executive Officer, Hamaoka Community Relations Office Manager, Hamaoka
Nuclear Power Executive Headquarters, in 2008; and Senior Managing ExecutiveOfficer, Site Vice President of Hamaoka Nuclear Power Executive Headquarters
in 2014.Currently, he serves as Director & Executive Vice President, Chief Nuclear
Officer of Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. since April 2017. Mr. Kurata assumed
office as the Chair of Chief Nuclear Officer Committee of FEPC in October 2019.

Noriko Endo completed the doctorate program of Energy Science at theGraduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University to earn her Ph.D. in energy
science. She specializes in energy policy, as well as risk and security governance.
She was appointed her current position to research and educate, following acareer as an assistant editor-in-chief for an economic magazine. She has
established and is leading a panel of female experts that discuss energy andenvironmental issues as part of her research. She published her book, “Study ofJapan’s Nuclear Damage Compensation Scheme—Reviewing Tokyo ElectricPower Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident” (IwanamiShoten, Publishers) and went on to receive the 14th Osaragi Jiro Press Award forher work. She also serves as a member of the following governmental committees: Fiscal System Council; Nuclear Energy Subcommittee, Electricity and Gas
Industry Committee, Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy.

Hiroko Kondo

Hiromi Yamazaki

Koichi Tamagawa

Project Researcher
Graduate School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo

President & CEO,Japan Nuclear Safety Institute(JANSI)

Director,
Atomic Energy Association(ATENA)

Hiroko Kondo has been an independent consultant since 2015 after working as amanaging consultant at Alcoa Asia and IBM Japan (formerly PwC, IBCS) and asenior principal at Accenture. She has been engaged in business consulting forthe infrastructure industry for over 20 years. She is also the Project Researcher,of the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, a representativeof Matrix K, LLC, and a chief lead of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan Nuclear
Safety Subcommittee “Working Group on Effective Implementation of New
Inspection System”.

Mr. Yamazaki graduated from the University of Tokyo, Bachelor of Engineering
Degree in Mechanical Engineering and joined Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. in
1978. He served as General Manager of Construction Group, Nuclear Power Plant
Development & Engineering Dept. in 2001, General Manager of Engineering Dept.,
Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in 2005, Executive Officer and General Managerof Environmental Affairs Dept., Environmental Affairs & Plant Siting Division in2007, Senior Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of Environmental
Affairs & Plant Siting Division in 2011. Mr. Yamazaki joined JANSI as Executive
Officer Assistant to the CEO in 2016 and serves as President & CEO since June
2018.

Mr. Tamagawa graduated from the Faculty of Science and Engineering,
Ritsumeikan University, and joined the Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc., in 1976.
He was appointed as General Manager of the Nuclear Power Department,Nuclear Power Division, in 2009; Director and Executive Officer of the Nuclear
Power Division and Site Superinten-dent at Ikata Nuclear Power Station in 2011;
Managing Director and Senior Deputy Executive Director of the Nuclear Power
Division in 2014; and Director, Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer in 2016.
Mr. Tamagawa has been Advisor to Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc., since June2019 and Director of ATENA since November 2019.