Lecture by Naoaki Okuzumi of IRID’s Senior Manager of Planning and Administration Department at Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University
(January 19, 2024)
Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering (GSCSE), Waseda University, has provided a lecture “Advanced Geotechnical Engineering B” (Assessment Year2023) by Professor Hideo Komine of Waseda University GSCSE. The Advanced Geotechnical Engineering B class is an omnibus course by different lecturers from various fields related to the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) who were invited by Professor Komine.
This class has been supported by a subsidy project of “Development of new geotechnical technology and human resources program for environmental assessment of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant from fuel debris retrieval to the decommissioning”, granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The Advanced Geotechnical Engineering B class features the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS case.
As part of the Advanced Geotechnical Engineering B, Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of the Planning and Administration Department of the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID) gave a lecture on the investigation of fuel debris and the status of technological development for fuel debris retrieval for the Fukushima Daiichi conducted by IRID on January 19, 2024. He also explained the background surrounding the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi such as the structure of nuclear reactors and current situations of the nuclear industry in Japan.
The class was attended not only by students from Waseda University but also by students from Graduate School of the Tokyo University of Science. After the lecture, the lecturer and students also had a wide-ranging discussion through brainstorming.
Professor Komine is conducting research on super-heavy mud water (soil-based materials containing water, barite and bentonite) to utilize for the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi. The research was highly evaluated at the student presentation session of the IRID Symposium 2022, in which a student from the Komine laboratory of Waseda University received an award for excellence (presentation title: Evaluation on thermal properties of super-heavy mud water to utilize for intermediate storage facility of fuel debris).
- Date and time of the lecture: 17:00-18:40, Friday, January 19, 2024
- Place of lecture: Nishiwaseda Campus, Waseda University (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
- Presentation file “Investigation of fuel debris and the status of technological development of fuel debris retrieval for the Fukushima Daiichi conducted by IRID”
*This file is available in only Japanese.
The nuclear decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS is a long-term project so that it is important to cultivate human resource who will engage in the decommissioning in future. IRID will continue to share our activities working closely with academic institutions including universities to develop technology for the decommissioning and focus on cultivating human resources.
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Professor Komine, Waseda Uni.
The Advanced Geotechnical Engineering B class
N. Okuzumi, IRID
- Human Resource Development
- 2024
- Lecture by Naoaki Okuzumi of IRID’s Senior Manager of Planning and Administration Department at Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University
(January 19, 2024) - 2023
- Delivering a Lecture by Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of Planning and Administration Department [Tohoku University Safety Seminar on Light Water Reactor (Nuclear Decommissioning Class)]
(September 26, 2023) - Lecture by Naoaki Okuzumi of IRID’s Senior Manager of Planning and Administration Department at Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp 2023 Organized by Tokyo Institute of Technology (August 2, 2023)
- 2021
- The Tohoku University Safety Seminar on Light Water Reactor (Nuclear Decommissioning Class): Lecture by Mr. Kenro Takamori of IRID and Mr. Taiji Kobayashi of Toshiba Energy & Systems Solutions Cooperation
(September 16 and 17, 2021) - 2020
- The Tohoku University Safety Seminar on Light Water Reactor (Nuclear Decommissioning Class): Lectured by Mr. Kenro Takamori (IRID) and Dr. Satoshi Okada (Hitachi-GE) (September 29, 2020)
- The 3rd Japan–Russia Joint Forum for Education and Research: Lecture by Mr. Naoaki Okuzumi at Tokyo Institute of Technology (February 20, 2020)
- 2019
- Article titled “Current Status of IRID’s R&D for the Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station” Published in the October 2019 Issue of the Japanese Geotechnical Society Journal. (October, 2019)
- Mr. Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of IRID, Gives a Presentation at the Fukushima Reconstruction Symposium on Waste Treatment and Decontamination Technologies (June 4, 2019)
- Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of IRID’s R&D Strategy Planning Department, Delivers a Lecture at the KISTEC Educational Seminar: “On the Way to Nuclear Decommissioning” (March 13, 2019)
- Naoaki Okuzumi Delivers Lecture at the National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College (February 23, 2019)
- 2018
- A Small-Workshop at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (December 26, 2018)
- Lecture at the National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College, by Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of the R&D Strategy Planning Department (August 27, 2018)
- Lecture by Kenro Takamori, General Manager of R&D Strategy Planning Department [KISTEC Educational Seminar “Starting with "Decommissioning" as the First Step: Developing Technology and Human Resources for the "Next Generation" as the Second Step”](March 14, 2018)
- Lecture by Dr. Tamio Arai [Introduction to Robots for Nuclear Decommissioning at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, Kindai University](January 16, 2018)
- Small Workshop with Tokyo Institute of Technology (January 10, 2018)
- 2017
- Vice President Dr. Tamio Arai Delivers Lecture at the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, Technical Committee on the Knowledge Innovation in the Manufacturing and Management (November 13, 2017)
- The University of Tokyo – IRID Workshop was Held (November 1, 2017)
- IRID Presentation at the MIT-Tokyo Tech Workshop on Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems (October 27, 2017)
- A Lecture by Kenro Takamori, General Manager of R&D Strategy Planning Department, at Tohoku University Safety Seminar on Light Water Reactors (Overview of Nuclear Decommissioning) (September 21, 2017)
- A Lecture by Vice President Dr. Tamio Arai at the National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College [Overview of Decommissioning Robot] (September 13, 2017)
- Dr. Tamio Arai, IRID Vice President, Delivers Lecture at the Robotics Society of Japan Open Forum (September 11, 2017)
- Lecture by Vice President Dr. Tamio Arai and Kenro Takamori, General Manager of R&D Strategy Planning Department, at the FY2017 JAEA 3rd Summer School (September 6, 2017)
- Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of R&D Strategy Planning Department, Gives Speech at National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College (September 6, 2017)
- Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of R&D Strategy Planning Department Gives Speech at Fukushima Research Conference (ConFDeC2017)(September 5, 2017)
- Naoaki Okuzumi, IRID Senior Manager of R&D Strategy Planning Department, Delivers Lecture. [Knowledge Management Society of Japan] (June 30, 2017)
- IRID Executive Director, Atsufumi Yoshizawa, Delivers Lecture [at Nagoya University] (June 19, 2017)
- IRID Vice President, Dr. Tamio Arai, Delivers Lecture [Special Lecture at Japan Association for Automation Advancement General Meeting] (June 3, 2017)
- Mr. Kuwabara, General Manager of R&D Strategy Planning Department, Delivering Lecture, [KAST Educational Seminar: “Starting with ‘Decommissioning’ as a New Step”] (March 14, 2017)
- Mr. Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of R&D Strategy Planning Department, Delivering Lecture [Iwaki Manufacturing Academy, The 3rd Decommissioning Course] (February 9, 2017)
- Mr. Atsufumi Yoshizawa, Executive Director of IRID, Delivers Presentation at National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College (January 28, 2017)
- Small Workshop Held with Tokyo Institute of Technology (January 20, 2017)
- 2016
- Mr. Atsufumi Yoshizawa, Executive Director of IRID, Delivers Lecture at Nagoya University (November 26, 2016)
- Mr. Naoaki Okuzumi, Senior Manager of IRID’s R&D Planning Department, Delivers Lecture at National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College (October 27, 2016)
- Mr. Atsufumi Yoshizawa, Executive Director, Delivers Lecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology. (October 14, 2016)
- Small Workshop held in Co-operation with the Shibaura Institute of Technology (Sep. 26, 2016)
- Mr. Hirohisa Kuwabara, General Manager of the R&D Strategy Planning Dept., gives lecture on Nuclear Science and Technology for Decommissioning (September 15, 2016)
- Mr. Takamori, General Manager, R&D Management Department, Lectured at The Nuclear Summer School in Oarai (August 1, 2016)
- Speech by Kenro Takamori, IRID General Manager, R&D Management Department at the 1st Conference for R&D Initiative on Nuclear Decommissioning Technology by the Next Generation (NDEC）(March 16, 2016)
- Speech by Hirohisa Kuwahara, IRID General Manager, R&D Strategy Planning Department at the 9th Student Research Presentation Meeting hosted by the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Kanto-Koetsu Office (March 11, 2016)
- Industry-University Cooperation Exchange Meeting with the Shibaura Institute of Technology (Feb. 29, 2016)
- Small workshop at the University of Tsukuba (Feb 9, 2016)
- 2015
- Lecture by Kazuhito Yokoi, General Manager of the IRID Development Planning Office [The 4th University-Industry Cooperation Forum at University of Aizu] (Mar. 2, 2015)
- 2014
- Guest Lecture by IRID’s Kazuhito Yokoi at National Institute of Technology, Oyama College (Dec. 8, 2014)
- Participation of the workshop ‘Decommissioning Basic Research: Human resource development program’ hosted by MEXT (FY2014)
- 2013
- Workshop for R&D Plan and Scientific Research for Decommissioning of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, Jointly Hosted by MEXT and IRID in FY2013