The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (NISA) has renewed its regulatory role and its need for regulatory research on radioactive waste management, with recent circumstances of radioactive waste management in Japan being taken into consideration. In response, a technical supporting organization, the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES), in 2009 released the five-year research plan “Regulatory Research Plan on Radioactive Waste Management 2010–2014”, in cooperation with the research institutes of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The geological disposal research plan and the future research activities are outlined in this paper. JNES launched safety studies on geological disposal in 2003, the year it was established. JAEA and AIST joined as regulatory support research institutes in 2005. In October 2007, all three parties signed an agreement of cooperative study on geological disposal, which facilitated joint studies and exchanges of staff, data, and results. One of the ongoing joint studies has focused on regional-scale hydrogeological modeling using JAEA’s Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory.
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ASME 2010 13th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management
October 3–7, 2010
Tsukuba, Japan
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- Nuclear Engineering Division and Environmental Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5453-2
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Shinichi Nakayama,
Shinichi Nakayama
Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
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Yoshio Watanabe,
Yoshio Watanabe
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Masami Kato
Masami Kato
Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Agency, Tokyo, Japan
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Shinichi Nakayama
Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
Yoshio Watanabe
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Masami Kato
Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Agency, Tokyo, Japan
Paper No:
ICEM2010-40116, pp. 279-285; 7 pages
Published Online:
April 5, 2011
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Nakayama, S, Watanabe, Y, & Kato, M. "Regulatory Research for Geological Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste in Japan." Proceedings of the ASME 2010 13th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASME 2010 13th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, Volume 2. Tsukuba, Japan. October 3–7, 2010. pp. 279-285. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICEM2010-40116
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