ATENA Forum 2024
Date and Time

Place

Form of Event

February 15, Thursday, 2024
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*Only those who have received the invitation letter will be allowed to enterthe venue. Online audience can only participate in the Forum part.

PROGRAM
Hiroto Uozumi

President & CEO, ATENA

16:05 -16:15 Greeting message

Tomoyuki Sugiyama

Commissioner,
The Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan

16:15 -16:25

Keynote Speech

Jennifer Uhle

Vice President of Technical & Regulatory Services,
Nuclear Energy Institute16:25 -17:40

Panel Discussion

16:00-16:05

Opening Remarks【T h e m e】

Utilizing risk information in various eﬀorts toimprove nuclear safety in Japan【Moderator】

Akira Yamaguchi

Director, Nuclear Safety Research Association【Panelists】

George Apostolakis

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

Ichiro Ihara

Director, Senior Managing Executive Oﬃcer,
Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.

Yoichiro Kurokawa

Director, Nuclear Regulation Policy Planning Division,
The Nuclear Regulation Agency

Jennifer Uhle

Vice President of Technical & Regulatory Services,
Nuclear Energy InstituteTaku SatoDirector, ATENA

17:40-17:45

Closing remarks

18:00-18:30

Reception

Yoshihiro Tomioka

Director, ATENA

Presenters of ATENA forum 2024
Greeting Messages

Keynote Speech/Panel Discussion

Tomoyuki Sugiyama

Jennifer Uhle

Commissioner,
The Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan

Vice President of Technical & Regulatory Services,
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

Tomoyuki Sugiyama graduated a doctoral course at the Tokyo Institute ofTechnology, majoring in mechanical engineering in 1996. At the Japan Atomic
Energy Research Institute and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, he was engaged
in research on nuclear reactor safety, fuel safety, and risk assessment. As a leading
expert in the ﬁeld of nuclear reactor and fuel, Dr. SUGIYAMA contributed tointernational activities such as the Halden Reactor Project, the Committee on theSafety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), and the Working Group on the Analysis andManagement of Accidents (WGAMA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operationand Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA).
As a seconded staﬀ to NRA, Dr. SUGIYAMA engaged in conformity review of commercial
power reactors to the new regulatory requirements concerning severe accident.
He was appointed the Commissioner of NRA in September 2022.

Dr. Jennifer Uhle is NEIʼs Vice President of Technical & Regulatory Services.
Prior to joining NEI, Uhle was a consultant to the nuclear industry in the areas ofadvanced reactors and thermal-hydraulics, and prior to that as a senior executiveat the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 23 years.
Uhle obtained her bachelorʼ s and doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering fromMIT in 1991 and 1996, respectively. She served as the U.S. representative to theIAEAʼ s mission to Fukushima in 2011, and on the 2021 U.S. National Academy ofScience Committee on a U.S. fusion pilot program.

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 ofTokyo in 1979 and went on to complete the Doctoral Program in the Schoolof 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 a professorship at the Department of Sustainable
Energy and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Osaka University
in 2005, Professor, School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2015.
After serving as the President of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, heassumed his current position. His expertise is in reactor engineering and safetyengineering. 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 of California, Los Angeles as a professor for 20 years, and thenas a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Departmentof Nuclear Science and Engineering 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since2010 and Director of the Nuclear Risk Research Center, Central Research Instituteof Electric Power Industry since October 2014.

Yoichiro KurokawaIchiro Ihara

Director,
Nuclear Regulation Policy Planning Division,
The Nuclear Regulation Agency

Director, Senior Managing Executive Oﬃcer
Chief Nuclear Oﬃcer
Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.

Yoichiro Kurokawa graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University ofTokyo in 1995, and joined the Environment Agency (now the Ministry of theEnvironment).
At the Ministry of the Environment, he was in charge of the environmental
assessment systems, global warming countermeasures, soil contamination
countermeasures, and the disposal of contaminated waste generated by theFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.
He joined the Nuclear Regulation Authority in 2019. After serving as Directorof the Legal Research Oﬃce of the Chief Secretariat and Counselor for PolicyPlanning, he became Director of the General Aﬀairs Division of the Secretary'sSecretariat (Press Secretary) in 2021. He has been in his current position sinceJuly 2023.

Taku SatoDirector,Atomic Energy Association (ATENA)

Ichiro Ihara graduated from the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Facultyof Engineering, Nagoya University in 1984, and joined Chubu Electric PowerCo., Inc.
He was appointed as General Manager of Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station,Hamaoka Nuclear Power Executive Headquarters in 2014; Executive Oﬃcer,General Manager, Nuclear Power Department, Nuclear Power Division in
2017; Senior Managing Executive Oﬃcer, General Manager of Nuclear Power
Division, Chief Nuclear Oﬃcer in 2021. Senior Managing Executive Oﬃcer,Chief Nuclear Oﬃcer in 2022.

Taku Sato graduated the Department of Nuclear Engineering, the graduate school of Nagoya
University in 1993, and joined Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.
He was appointed as Deputy Plant Manager (Nuclear Safety) of Ohi Nuclear Power Plant in June
2014; General Manager, Engineering Department, Nuclear Power Division in July 2019; NuclearOﬃcer, Nuclear Safety & Engineering Department in July 2021; Director of Atomic Energy Associationin July 2023.