The Nuclear Industry Seminars\u2014jointly sponsored by JAIF and the Kansai Nuclear Council (known familiarly in Japanese as \u201cKan Gen Kon\u201d)\u2014have been staged annually since 2006 for the purposes of supporting the ensuring of nuclear human resources and promoting understanding of the nuclear industry. This time, they took place in Osaka and Tokyo on October 5 and 14, respectively, primarily aimed at students expecting to get degrees from colleges and graduate schools, as well as National Institutes of Technology (NITs), in 2026.<\/p>\n
The total number of visitors to the two sites this year was 433 (up slightly from last year\u2019s 430). Between the two, 89 companies and organizations (85 last year) staffed booths at the events\u2015the highest total since they began in 2006. Under current circumstances, new graduates and other young workers looking for a job are enjoying a seller\u2019s market (with demand for workers outstripping the supply), and the success of the seminars reflects the increase in the appetite for hiring of the companies in the Japanese nuclear industry.<\/p>\n
At both seminars, the visitors were given a questionnaire containing various questions. Of the total respondents, 85% said that they were willing to work in the nuclear industry, while 96% said that the seminars had helped them gain a better understanding of the industry. Masui commended their strong enthusiasm, saying that their reactions were \u201cgenerally favorable.\u201d He additionally noted that the students had come well prepared\u2014that is, they had researched about the Japanese nuclear industry in advance\u2014and that he intended to use future seminars as \u201cimportant occasions\u201d for attracting human resources to the nuclear industry.<\/p>\n
On October 23 and 24, meanwhile, the 10th East Asia Nuclear Forum was held in Dunhuang, China. As the first in-person gathering of the forum in five years, this year\u2019s event enjoyed the attendance of some 60 people from JAIF, the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA), and the Taiwan Nuclear Grade Industry Association (TNA). The participants exchanged information on the following issues, among others:<\/p>\n
Besides telling the reporters at the November 1 press conference about the programs of each of the Forum\u2019s sessions, Masui also described the technical tours taken by the participants to the Beishan underground research laboratory, a research facility on high-level radioactive waste (HLW) disposal, and a 100MW-class molten-salt, tower-type solar thermal power plant in the Gobi Desert, situated about 20km west of Dunhuang.<\/p>\n
The solar-panel plant site\u2015whose area measures 5.7 km2<\/sup> or so\u2015features a candle-shaped tower 260m high at its center, surrounded by 12,000 separate mirror units following the angle of the sun during daylight hours so as to collect and concentrate solar heat. Masui commented objectively on the plant\u2019s grand scale, adding that he subjectively had found it \u201cextremely impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n As the JAIF president regularly attends the national government\u2019s Nuclear Energy Subcommittee, under the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy, as a special member, he also explained to the reporters at the November 1 press conference about his remarks that he had given at that subcommittee\u2019s most recent meetings, on October 16 and 30.<\/p>\n Masui said that when attending both subcommittee meetings, he delivered his remarks from the perspective of the nuclear industry, emphasizing the importance of maintaining and strengthening supply chains. Asked by a reporter at the recent press conference about the issues involved, he noted three in particular:<\/p>\n The Nuclear Industry Seminars\u2014jointly sponsored by JAIF and the Kansai Nuclear Council (known familiarly in Japanese as \u201cKan Gen Kon\u201d)\u2014have been staged annually since 2006 for the purposes of supporting the ensuring of nuclear human resources and promoting understanding of the nuclear industry. This time, they took place in Osaka and Tokyo on October 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[1197,1209,67,1206,712,1210],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry","category-news","tag-advisory-committee-for-natural-resources-and-energy","tag-east-asia-nuclear-forum","tag-jaif","tag-kan-gen-kon","tag-nuclear-energy-subcommittee","tag-nuclear-industry-seminars"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n