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Yasuro Suzuki
- I am Yasuro Suzuki, Executive Director of JANTI.
In regard to the three main pillars of “gathering, analyzing, and utilizing information,” “promoting the safety culture,” and “developing private-sector standards,” that our organization has focused on during the three years since our founding, we have strived to create the basic framework in the efforts toward improvement, with continuous reflection upon the opinions of our members and evaluation by outside experts. For instance, processes such as on-site observations during plant outages and observations of simulator training for operators have been added to the special peer reviews for electric power companies. Additionally, we have checked and supported power station improvement plans, and improvements have been made through the holding of seminars on the common weak points. In regard to the NUCIA information database, we have implemented schemes that are easy to use, such as clarification of criteria for entering data into the database and creating flowcharts showing the state of each company's incoming information and lateral review thereof. In the creation of private-sector standards, we have reached the stage of being able to provide 30 draft-standards.
Also, in regard to the fourth pillar of “maintaining and fostering engineers,” the Plant Technical Support Division has been recently set up and its activities are getting into full swing. Preparations were made for the chief plant operator certification last November, and we have been making effort to hold nuclear safety seminars and to support the smooth adoption of new maintenance programs. These above-mentioned important issues support the technology foundation of the nuclear power industry and are largely recognized by persons concerned, with both favorable expectations as well as anxieties. We shall proceed in these endeavors, while simultaneously improving communications with our members.
At this time, expectations toward nuclear power are growing from both the perspective of the stable supply of energy and countermeasures against global warming, and global re-evaluations have begun to come into play. It could even be called a "Nuclear Renaissance." Amidst the flowing of this tide, Japan's actions are attracting a lot of attention, especially in the fields of nuclear power plant construction and fuel reprocessing. We are thinking about the assessment of overall efforts by the nuclear power industry that have made steady progress in the face of concerns over the growing demand for power and the difficulties of finding acceptable locations. On the other hand, we feel that satisfactory results have not yet been attained from the perspectives of power plant operation and fostering public trust. While most of the countries that are advanced in the field of nuclear power, especially the US and Finland, are showing very good performance results, only Japan has made no progress in the direction of improving radiation exposure dose and the plant capacity utilization rate, which are serious issues that need to be dealt with, and we hope that with the cooperation of all our members we will collectively succeed in making improvements. For the time being, we shall exert our all-out efforts toward steady progress in the activities of the four above-mentioned impending pillars. We hope all of our members will guide us in these respects.
Yasuro Suzuki ,Executive Director
Jun 20,2008
