Fostering Nuclear Human Resources Requires Continual Effort, Says JAIF President
On March 28, President Akio Takahashi of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) gave his monthly press briefing, at which he outlined what went on at the recent "Presentations by the Atomic Industry 2020" (PAI).
The PAI was held in Tokyo on March 3 and in Osaka on March 6, jointly sponsored by JAIF and Kan Gen Kon (Kansai Genshiryoku Kondankai), an association of nuclear-related organizations in the Kansai region (centered in Osaka). A combined total of eighty companies and organizations (forty-six in Tokyo and thirty-four in Osaka) participated this year, eight more than in the previous year.
Although the number of participating entities in the PAI seminar had dropped after the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi in March 11, 2011, it has increased yearly since 2013. Commenting on those numbers, President Takahashi noted, “All companies seem to be struggling to secure the necessary human resources. At the same time, the recognition of the seminar has grown.”
On the other hand, while the n...more
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Memories and Studies
By Sae Ochi
This year is the eighth since the giant earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. Last year, a variety of natural disasters struck Japan one after another, so the big earthquake of eight years ago seems to be talked about less and less now, as if it had been “overwritten” by those other events. As for myself, though, I’m not so sorry about that. No matter how sad an experience is, or how bad a disaster is, the memory of it eventually fades. I do wish, however, for at least some of the memories to remain, which could afford people in the future some lessons when they look back.
Desperate to Record
I don’t think that I’m the only one who thinks that way. Those who went to the area immediately after the earthquake have continually said afterwards that the hardships experienced should be recorded and not forgotten. Medical workers in particular—who have dealt with complicated issues in Fukushima—tend to think similarly.
On January 13, a search in “PubMed,” a retrieval site for medical magazine, found some 1,249 papers including the phrase “Fukushima nuclear accident” in the title or abstract. That was just in English. Adding the medical papers written in Japanese, or those that were simply not referred to, would surely cause that number to swell. Those papers are valuable disaster memories that will remain after we are gone.
Why Medical Papers Cau...more
