ICSMT-Kobe 2014 November 2-5, 2014

“What is Resilience?
Resilience for Nuclear Power Plant, for Industries, for Society”

Conference Scope
More than three years have passed since Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March
2011. Since then, the term “resilience”, which was originally used as the recovery capacity of an
ecosystem in face of environmental challenges, is attracting interest for engineers as the concept thatcan develop existing frameworks of systems safety, reliability and risk engineering.

Resilience is defined, e.g. by United States National Research Council, as the ability to prepare andplan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to actual or potential adverse events. In
this sense, resilience is the concept which is related to the context of emergencies such as naturaldisasters.

Moreover, resilience is also viewed as the concept that is related to safety and reliability oftechnological and social systems during normal times. Resilience is not restricted to system’s
response to crisis, but also includes adaptation to slow and long term changes. In other words,resilience can be defined also as the capacity of a system to maintain, through maintenance,
functions that deteriorate over time, the capacity of a system to evolve by remaking itself in order toadapt to existing and future environmental challenges, the capacity of a system to become morerobust by learning from past failures.

During ICMST-Kobe 2014 conference, the application of the resilience concept to nuclear safety,maintenance science and technology is discussed from these standpoints. The discussion also
includes the application of the lessons learned from what happened at nuclear power plants in Japan
during the Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Keywords of Technical Areas
Scope of ICMST (Keywords of Technical Areas)
Areas

Example of Keywords

1Safety and Reliability
Papers on science and technology applicable for improvement of safety
and reliability of nuclear plants or facilities are solicited.

System safety, Resilience, Risk Assessment, Defense in Depth, Reliability Evaluation,
Deterministic Approach, Stochastic Approach, Safety Regulation, Risk-informed
Maintenance, and others

2

New Technology in Nuclear Power Plants

3Papers on new technology in any stages from R&D to standardization innuclear power plants are solicited.
Decommissioning of Fukushima Plant
Papers on technologies and field experiences applicable to not only
Fukushima site but also other plants in decommission are solicited.

Inspection and Monitoring Technologies, Repair/ Replacement/Mitigation Technologies,
Remote Control, Automatic Welding, Non-destructive Evaluation, and others
Dismantling Technologies, Robot Technology, Contaminated Water Treatment, Field
Experiences of Decommissioning, and others

4Safety Enhancement Program in the Post-Fukushima Period
Papers on safety standards, strategy for emergency, emergency
preparedness, etc. are solicited.

Measures against Severe Accident, Diverse and Flexible Coping Measures against Severe
Accident (ex. NEI FLEX Strategies), Strategies to Enhance Safety, Portable Equipment
for Emergency, External Events, Fire Protection, Operational Experiences, and others

5Maintenance Technology for Aging Nuclear Plants
Papers on any topics in maintenance technology for aging nuclear power
plants such as mechanism of aging phenomena, degradation evaluation,aging management and so on are solicited.
Advanced Maintenance Technology in Sustainable Society

Ageing Management, Technologies for Aging Degradation Evaluation, IGSCC, IASCC,PWSCC, Fatigue, Environmental Fatigue, FAC, LDI, Cable Insulation Degradation,Concrete Degradation, Irradiation Embrittlement, Thermal Ageing, Water Chemistry, andothers

6Papers on this area in nuclear and non-nuclear industries are solicited.

78Education and Training for Maintenance
Papers on this area in nuclear and non-nuclear industries are solicited.
Maintenance Related Issues
Papers on this area issues in nuclear and non-nuclear industries aresolicited.

Maintenance Optimization, Big Data Analysis for Maintenance, Condition Monitoring,
Visualization of Maintenance Information, Risk-informed ISI, CBM, Vibration Analysis,
Oil Analysis, Thermography, AE, Motor Analysis, MOV Analysis, Engine Analysis, andothers
E&T for Maintenance, E&T for Severe Accident, E&T for Decommissioning, Human
Resource Development, Maintenance Literacy, and others
Maintenance Cost, Cost Reduction, Availability, Regulations, Global Standards for
Maintenance, O&M Codes, NDI, Public Communication, Safety Culture, Risk
Communication, Information Technologies, and others