The 2013 International Forum on Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Security
- Ensuring Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Security of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options in consideration of the Accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station -

Program / Distributed materials

3 December

Opening Remarks and Keynote Speeches

Opening Remarks

Mr. Shojiro Matsuura, JAEA President

Keynote Speeches

"Japan's energy policy in consideration of the Accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station"

Mr. Yojiro Hatakeyama, Director, Nuclear Energy Policy Planning Division, Electricity and Gas Industry Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

"Partnering with Japan to Ensure Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security"

Mr. Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, United States

"French nuclear fuel cycle policy and its international efforts for ensuring nuclear non-proliferation"

Mr. Frédéric Journes, Director of Strategy and International Affairs of the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Governor for France to the IAEA
(Mr. Christophe Xerri, Nuclear Counsellor at the Embassy of France in Japan, will read the speech on behalf of Mr. Journes)

"Meeting Safeguards Challenges"

Mr. Tero Varjoranta, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
(Mr. Davis Hurt, Head of the IAEA Tokyo Regional Office, will read the speech on behalf of Mr. Varjoranta)

Panel Discussion 1
"Nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear security measures of nuclear fuel cycle options in consideration of the Accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station"

Chairperson

• Mr. Tetsuya Endo, Ambassador, Adjunct Senior Fellow, The Japan Institute of International Affairs / Former Vice Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of Japan
  Discussion Points

Panelists

• Mr. Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, United States
• Mr. Robert Einhorn, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
• Mr. Davis Hurt, Head of the IAEA Tokyo Regional Office
• Mr. Christophe Xerri, Nuclear Counsellor at the Embassy of France in Japan
  "The French nuclear fuel cycle policy and its principles"
• Prof. Hajimu Yamana, The Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI)
  "Prospects for the fuel cycle issues in Japan"
• Mr. Toshiro Mochiji, Director, Department of Science and Technology for Nuclear Material Management (STNM) / Deputy Director, Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security (ISCN), JAEA
  "The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Lessons and Responses"
  "Nuclear proliferation and nuclear security risks within fuel cycle options"

Reception

17:30 - 19:00, the Lounge Hibiya, the 13th floor of the Jiji Press Building.

4 December

Panel Discussion 2
"Roles of safeguards and technical measures for ensuring nuclear non-proliferation for nuclear fuel cycle options"

Chairperson

• Prof. Satoru Tanaka, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  Discussion Points

Panelists

• Prof. Joonhong Ahn, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  "Improvement of Long-term Proliferation Resistance"
• Mr. Davis Hurt, Head of the IAEA Tokyo Regional Office
• Prof. Il Soon Hwang, Department of Nuclear Engineering, School of Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
  "Closing Nuclear Fuel Cycle by Multi-National Approach"
• Mr. Christophe Xerri, Nuclear Counsellor at the Embassy of France in Japan
  "The French ASTRID SFR Project"
• Dr. Yusuke Kuno, Deputy Director, Department of Science and Technology for Nuclear Material Management (STNM), JAEA
  "Measures Against Proliferation Risk On Closed/Open Fuel Cycle"

Closing Remarks

Mr. Tetsuya Endo, Ambassador, Adjunct Senior Fellow, The Japan Institute of International Affairs / Former Vice Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of Japan

Prof. Satoru Tanaka, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo