Wednesday, 10th October, 2012, InterAcademy Council  (IAC) and Science Council of Japan (SCJ) collaboratively held their International Conference on the impact of Nuclear Plant Accident with the delegates and representatives from the IAC Member countries, honorable guest scientists and experts within the public audience. Dr Kitazawa, the chairman of our Independent Investigation Commission, attended the conference …

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The U.S. National Academy of Sciences Fukushima Lessons-Learned Committee held its meeting in Tokyo on November 27th, 2012 Dr Kitazawa, the chairman of our Independent Investigation Commission, attended the meeting to exchanges views on the analyses of the Fukushima accident.   For further details, please refer to the website of“The U.S. National Academy of Sciences …

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The contributed article “Reform the Japanese power system. Nationalize Tepco” by the panel’s staff director, Kay Kitazawa, has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, by SAGE. The full article is freely available to public at SAGE’s website.

We have already informed the result of Fellow position to each applicant on 23rd March.

The contributed article “Lessons from Japan’s nuclear accident” has been published by East Asia Forum. The article is freely available to public at East Asia Forum’s website.

We closed the position for Fellow. Thank you for applaying for the position. We will inform the result individually later. So please refrain from your inquiry.

The contributed article “Fukushima in review: A complex disaster, a disastrous response” has been published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, by SAGE. The article is a summary of the Final Chapter from the Japanese-language investigation report The abstract of the article is freely available to public at SAGE’s website. http://bos.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/02/29/0096340212440359.abstract

 Handout A Press conference was held at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan , on Thursday 1st March, 2012. Dr Koichi Kitazawa (Chairman of the “Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident”), Dr Yoichi Funabashi (President of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation), Ambassador Tetsuya Endo (Former Chairman of the Board of Governors, International …

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