Gratitude and respect to those working on the recovery of Fukushima andthe decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Creating a ‘home’ to pass on to future generations.

AFW Initiatives
1. Educational support: Providing learning opportunities about decommissioning efforts
through the eyes of residents
2. Supporting local industry: Creating a vibrant “home” to prepare for a post-

decommissioning future
3. Guided tours: Enhancing understanding of the area affected by the nuclear accident
4. Lectures: Sharing information on the progress of recovery in the Hamadori area on thePacific Coast of Fukushima Prefecture and decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station

Why learning about the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi
is needed through the eyes of those living in the area
September 7, 2015

April 22, 2011

Reduction inevacuation
zone size

Evacuation phase has turned to…

Living with the decommissioningof the reactors

A repudiation of things taken for granted

Rice harvesting in former evacuation area

This has continued throughout the five years
since the accident.

Being able to explain what it is like to live withthe decommissioning in one's own words isnecessary to prevent misunderstandings.
However there are major hurdles to this at thepresent time:

2. No place to learn/No-one to teach
3. Obtain the latest information about
decommissioning efforts is required
A venue that connects the decommissioning at the site andthe people living in the region is requiredBarriers that emerged
due to accident

Local residents

TEPCO

Desire tolearn

Desire toinform
Lack of congruence
Break down barriers, bringing bothsides together so that there iscongruence between their objectives

TEPCO

Local residents
Desire tolearn
Desire toinform

AFW acts as an information conduit,
creating an environment where local residents can learn
more about the decommissioning process
TEPCO

Local residents

Study meetings/
Site study tours

Requests for study
meetings/site tours

Provision of latest
documentation on
decommissioning

Request forprovision ofprimary information
Request for
permission for site
study tours by localresidents

Study Meeting

Study Tour

Study meeting withlocal residents

Study tour of Fukushima
Daiichi site

Combined

Minami-soma/Iwaki
Once per month

Held 7 times in 2015
(approx. 140 participants)

Understanding the decommissioning process
requires a multifaceted approach!

Materials used in study meetings (provided by TEPCO)

Expert advice is required for those unfamiliar with how nuclear power generation
works. Simply providing them with printed material makes it difficult for them toenvisage what is involved in the operation of a nuclear power plant.

Passing on knowledge to the next generation (Inspection tour with university students)

Challenges
1. Lack of venue to learn about decommissioning efforts
The decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi plant is expected to takearound 40 years. A place where expert knowledge can be exchanged must be
established and tools that can be leveraged so that anyone can converse about
decommissioning activities developed in order to provide a foundation for thedecades ahead.
2. Training of personnel required
The training of personnel who have expert knowledge who can converse
with local residents is required. At the present time, there are no individuals
living in the area who are able to talk knowledgably about thedecommissioning of the reactors.
3. Efforts that cover a wider area are required
It is not only those living on the Pacific coast that must deal with the ongoing
decommissioning process; the disaster affected a wide area, and as such, weneed to incorporate an enlarged region within our scope of activities.
4. Combining the efforts of the private sector and the national governmental withTEPCO
Barriers that exist between private enterprise, the national government and TEPCO
must be overcome to ensure cooperation that ensures that leaves a healthy society to
the next generation after the decommissioning has been completed.

To ensure that we leave behind a “home” where the things taken
for granted are not repudiated…

We need to create an environment that can beentrusted to the next generation!

Reference

Gratitude and respect to those working on the recovery of Fukushima and thedecommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Creating a “home” for future generations in Fukushima Prefecture’s Futaba County.
Appreciate Fukushima Workers
AFW is primarily involved in the following efforts to disseminate and share informationin order to contribute to society:
Providing educational support: Sharing basic knowledge with those who live in the area
for them to learn of the challenges presented by the decommissioning of the reactors.
Supporting local industry: Promotion of local industry to enable residents to return toformer evacuation zones and increase the permanent population of the area.
Providing local guided tours: Improving literacy on the Fukushima Daiichi plant throughguided tours.
Conducting lectures: Spreading information regarding the recovery of the Hamadori
region in Fukushima and the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear PowerPlant.

AFW Initiatives
1. Educational Support
We provide support in order for residents who live side-by-side
with the reactors as they are being decommissioned to describe
their situation.
AFW Representative Akihiro Yoshikawa uses the knowledge hehas obtained through direct observation and his extensive
experience working on the maintenance of the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant to present information obtained from TEPCO
concerning decommissioning efforts and explain the situation
being faced by workers at the site in an easily-understood format.
When giving lectures that require more specialized knowledge(for media, local government, businesses involved in recovery
efforts, etc.), explanations related to decommissioning efforts andthe nuclear power plant structure use more technical language.
These educational efforts are not limited to desk-based learning;tours of the plant are also organized with the objective ofshowing local residents what decommissioning involves.

AFW Initiatives
2. Supporting Local Industry
AFW is engaged in activities that support those living in theaffected region as the seek reconstruction in a way that theyenvisage. We work with local residents to formulate initiatives
that will help them write their own future once thedecommissioning of the reactors has been completed. At thepresent time, AFW is actively involved in assisting the activities ofthe Hirono Olive Village. This new business in the town of Hirono
is one way in which local residents are looking to revitalize thearea.

3. Local Guided Tours
AFW offers guided tours lead by Representative Akihiro
Yoshikawa. As a former TEPCO employee who worked at thenuclear power plant and as a resident of Namie who wasforced to leave due to the disaster, he is able to give
participants a unique insight on the lives of both workers
involved in the decommissioning of the reactors and of thosecurrently living as evacuees.

AFW Initiatives
4. Lectures
AFW offers lectures that are based on the first-handexperiences of someone who lives in the affected region.
Relying just on the media does not give the whole picture;
Yoshikawa provides a perspective as someone who was forced
to evacuate from his home after the disaster and as a formeremployee of TEPCO who was involved in recovery operations
at the Fukushima Daiichi plant .
With over a decade working in maintenance and sitemanagement at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant,
Yoshikawa brings his experience and first-hand information
gained through numerous visits to the site together inpresenting highly insightful lectures.