Message from the Director

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Thank you very much for visiting our "Fugen Decommissioning Engineering Center" website.

Fugen received approval for a decommissioning plan in 2008,we has set safety and reduction of environmental load as the highest priority goals, and is working on the decommissioning of Japan's first large-scale light water cooling reactor.
Since 2018, we have been operating a clearance system with the aim of recycling "items that do not need to be treated as radioactive waste" among the dismantled and removed materials that have been generated.

In the second phase of the decommissioning plan, the "period for dismantling and removing facilities around the reactor", the dismantling and removal of piping and equipment, including the reactor cooling system,
around the reactor itself was completed in September 2022.
We are continuing to dismantle the large equipment of the reactor cooling system and the heavy water system equipment.
Since last year, we have actively cooperated with national and local government projects to promote the reuse and understanding of clearance materials, and as part of our own efforts, we have displayed reused products from clearance materials at our own facilities and those of our affiliates.
We are developing remote underwater dismantling technology using laser technology for the dismantling of the reactor body, which is the next step.
FIn addition, we have collected samples for activation analysis from reactor structural materials using a remote sampling device that we have developed ourselves, have compiled　the evaluation results.
These results will be reflected in the design of the remote dismantling equipment, the dismantling procedure, and the waste body disposal procedure.

Regarding the transport of spent fuel, on June 24, 2022, JAEA signed the implementation contract with “Orano”,France for the transport and reprocessing of spent fuel from Fugen.

We are striving to share lessons learned from our work for the decommissioning of LWRs, through cooperation with local companies, research institutes such as universities, electric power companies, and relevant foreign organizations. We will continue to make efforts to realize safe and reliable decommissioning, so we sincerely appreciate for your continued understanding and support for our activities and efforts.