TY - CONF
T1 - Needs for the decommissioning geotechnical engineering for Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant
AU - Goto, Shigeru
AU - Komine, Hideo
AU - Saito, Yuma
AU - Yoshikawa, Ema
AU - Suzuki, Makoto
AU - Watanabe, Yasutaka
N1 - Funding Information:
A proposal from the Japanese Geotechnical Society was accepted for ‘Human Resource Development and Research Program for Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS)’ by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. This proposal was aimed at establishing "Decommissioning Geotechnical Engineering," which is expected to be effective at promoting geotechnical engineering application education for the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Actually, "Decommissioning Geotechnical Engineering" is expected to be a basis of education and training of young engineers because it can produce an academic field in which geotechnical engineers and nuclear engineers can collaborate.
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was damaged by huge tsunami in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Decommissioning of the nuclear plant was presented as an urgent issue, but many difficulties persist in relation to the decommissioning process. Geotechnical engineering methods, e.g. a cutoff wall for decreasing the inflow of ground water into the plant and cover material of low radiation waste have already been applied to the site. Furthermore, we believe there are many more geotechnical engineering methods and materials that are useful for decommissioning the post-accident nuclear plant. A group of Japan Geotechnical Society researchers started to study an education system emphasizing the application of geotechnical engineering for post-accident nuclear plants under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. This education system is based on the new concept of 'Decommissioning Geotechnical Engineering'. This paper presents the concept of "The Decommissioning Geotechnical Engineering" and examples of Decommissioning Geotechnical Engineering technologies.
AB - Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was damaged by huge tsunami in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Decommissioning of the nuclear plant was presented as an urgent issue, but many difficulties persist in relation to the decommissioning process. Geotechnical engineering methods, e.g. a cutoff wall for decreasing the inflow of ground water into the plant and cover material of low radiation waste have already been applied to the site. Furthermore, we believe there are many more geotechnical engineering methods and materials that are useful for decommissioning the post-accident nuclear plant. A group of Japan Geotechnical Society researchers started to study an education system emphasizing the application of geotechnical engineering for post-accident nuclear plants under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. This education system is based on the new concept of 'Decommissioning Geotechnical Engineering'. This paper presents the concept of "The Decommissioning Geotechnical Engineering" and examples of Decommissioning Geotechnical Engineering technologies.
KW - Decommissioning
KW - Geotechnical engineering
KW - Nuclear power plant
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M3 - Paper
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SP - 3119
EP - 3122
T2 - 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ICSMGE 2017
Y2 - 17 September 2017 through 22 September 2017
ER -