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Breaking – TEPCO’s Efforts towards Nuclear Reform on Facebook too!

TEPCO strongly wishes to be a nuclear power plant operator which has the world’s highest level of safety awareness, engineering capabilities and risk communication ability with society.
Thus, we established the “Nuclear Reform Special Task Force” led by our president in order to reform TEPCO’s safety culture, safety measures, disaster prevention measures, risk/crisis control protocol, information disclosure, and risk communication methods.

At the same time, we established “Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee” which is comprised of domestic and overseas experts and monitors our reform implementation and progress from a purely external point of view as an advisory organization.

We will implement management and safety culture reforms under this new organizational framework.

TEPCO’s Goals

Motivated by deep remorse for the tragic accident that occurred at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, we will do away with our previously held overconfidence in our current safety culture and measures and begin the implementation of nuclear reforms.
We are also determined to prevent the reoccurrence of another disastrous accident. To this end, present safety policies will be reformed from the ground up while taking into consideration domestic and overseas expert opinions.

Basic Policies of Nuclear Reform

1. The new organizations replacing the internal accident investigation panel (already abolished) will be monitored and led by external experts.- Domestic and overseas expert knowledge and opinions will be fully utilized.
2. Necessary measures will be implemented in accordance with the accident investigation reports and expert opinions received.- We will do our best to fulfill all of our responsibilities.
3. We will promptly and powerfully advance Nuclear Reforms aiming to establish the

New Framework for Nuclear Reform

New Framework for Nuclear Reform

Nuclear Reform Special Task Force

Main Members of the Task Force

[Chief of the task force] Naomi Hirose (President)
[Deputy chief of the task force] Zengo Aizawa (Vice president, Division Director of the Nuclear Power and Plant Siting Division)
[Chief of the secretariat] Takafumi Anegawa (General manager of the Nuclear Asset Management Department)
[Members of the secretariat] Internal: Mid-career and younger employees from the Nuclear Power Division and others (11 people)
External: Experts
(Safety culture, disaster prevention, risk/crisis control, information disclosure, risk communication, etc.)
Naomi Hirose Zengo Aizawa Takafumi Anegawa

The Roles of the Task Force

– Under the supervision of the “Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee”, the task force will promptly and powerfully advance nuclear reforms.

– We will take to heart the suggestions received from the investigative panels and experts and make every effort to incorporate and implement them.

– The existing safety culture, safety measures, disaster prevention measures, risk/crisis control protocol, information disclosure and risk communication methods will be reformed from the ground up in consideration of the lessons learned from the accident.

– We will make every effort to establish the world’s best safety and technology standards and will establish organizational frameworks in order to not only meet but exceed societal expectations.

Activity History

Please visit our Facebook page to confirm the activity status of the “Nuclear Reform Special Task Force”

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu_reform/index-e.html

November 3, 2012 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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