Publication: July 2019

The Nuclear Damage Compensation Facilitation Corporation (NDF) was established in September 2011 so as to ensure that compensation payouts are promptly and appropriately provided, and a stable supply of electricity can be secured through the granting of compensation funds required by nuclear facility operators, etc., in the event that they are faced with a large-scale nuclear damage scenario.

In August 2014, the NDF was reorganized and renamed the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) to include functions such as support for the decommissioning of the Fukushima reactors, management of the reserve fund for decommissioning and other such matters to carry out decommissioning work was added to its business in May 2017 following an amendment to the law.

The accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) that occurred in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 was unprecedented in the history of Japan.

In order to ensure that compensation payments from TEPCO to those affected by the accident, in addition to granting the necessary funds to TEPCO and providing compensation payment-related consultation services and monitoring these payments, the NDF has formulated the TEPCO Business Transformation Plan (Special Business Plan), to generate the funds required, beginning with drastic cost-cutting measures and so on.

Furthermore, together with providing a technical foundation to the government’s ‘Mid-and-Long Term Roadmap’ , the NDF has contributed to the Roadmap’s steady implementation by developing a ‘Strategic Plan’ on an annual basis and so forth, providing technical assistance to deal with main decommissioning challenges, conducting R&D project management, and disseminating information regarding decommissioning efforts.

Eight years have passed since the accident. In that time, the above efforts have steadily progressed with the help of various stakeholders. In May 2017, we launched a new business plan (Third Special Business Plan) that stipulates responses to challenges currently being faced, such as addressing the upward swing in the funds necessary for compensation and decommissioning, and the full-scale implementation of mid-and-long term decommissioning approaches, such as fuel debris retrieval.

In addition to having TEPCO fulfil its responsibilities towards Fukushima, the NDF will strive to implement this plan through the streamlining of TEPCO management to ease the burden on taxpayers and ensure that returns to the public are realized.

July 2019

Hajimu Yamana President, Nuclear Damage Compensation and

Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation

2-101 Chuo, Tomioka-machi, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture

Program Supervision & Support Office

Executive Directors

Nobuyuki Nakamura

Yoshihiro Fuchigami

Akio MimuraChairman, Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Kojiro ShiraishiChairman of the Board, The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings

Special Adviser to the President, Japan Securities Finance Co., Ltd.

Yoshimitsu KobayashiDirector of the Board, Chairperson, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation

Noriko EndoAdjunct Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance

Tadashi OnoderaAdviser, KDDI Corporation

Kunio Ito [Chairperson]

Adjunct Professor, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Business Administration

Former Superintendent General/Former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis

Former Director for Nuclear Damages Affairs, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy

ExecutiveDirector

ExecutiveDirector

Mitsuo MatsuiFormer Adviser, The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.

Executive Director

ExecutiveDirector

ExecutiveDirector

[Corporation History]2011Sep 12 Nuclear Damage Compensation Facilitation

Corporation founded Nov 4 Ministerial Approval of Emergency Special Business

Plan (Emergency Special Business Plan) Nov 9 Establishment of the Fukushima Office

2012May 9 Ministerial Approval of Special Business Plan

(Comprehensive Special Business Plan)Jul 31 Subscription of shares in Tokyo Electric Power

Company, Inc. (paid in amount: ¥1 trillion)

2014Jan 15 Authorization of change to the Comprehensive

Special Business Plan (New Comprehensive Special Business Plan)

Aug 18 Reorganization into the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation

2015Apr 30 Formulation of Technical Strategic Plan 2015 for

Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company

2016Jul 13 Formulation of Technical Strategic Plan 2016 for

Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.

2017May 18 Ministerial Approval of Special Business Plan

(Revised New Comprehensive Special Business Plan)

Aug 31 Formulation of Technical Strategic Plan 2017 for Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.

2018Oct 2 Formulation of Technical Strategic Plan 2018 for

Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.

2-101 Chuo, Tomioka-machi, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture

Program Supervision & Support Office

Executive Directors

Nobuyuki Nakamura

Yoshihiro Fuchigami

Akio MimuraChairman, Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Kojiro ShiraishiChairman of the Board, The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings

Special Adviser to the President, Japan Securities Finance Co., Ltd.

Yoshimitsu KobayashiDirector of the Board, Chairperson, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation

Noriko EndoAdjunct Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance

Tadashi OnoderaAdviser, KDDI Corporation

Kunio Ito [Chairperson]

Adjunct Professor, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Business Administration

Former Superintendent General/Former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis

Former Director for Nuclear Damages Affairs, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy

ExecutiveDirector

ExecutiveDirector

Mitsuo MatsuiFormer Adviser, The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.

Executive Director

ExecutiveDirector

ExecutiveDirector

Shunsuke Kondo [Chairperson]Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo (President, Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan)

Toshio Kodama President, Japan Atomic Energy Agency

Masahiro SakaneAdviser, Komatsu Ltd.

Shigeru TakahashiProfessor, Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Hosei University

Shigeaki TsunoyamaSpecial Adviser for Recovery from the Nuclear Disaster, Fukushima Prefectural Government

Takashi Yamauchi Chairman, Japan Federation of Construction Contractors

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa Special Fellow, Center of Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Paul Dickman [USA]

Senior Policy Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory/Board of Directors, American Nuclear Society

Mike Weightman [UK]

Former Chief Executive, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)

Adrian Simper [UK]

Director of Strategy and Technology, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)

Vincent Gorgues [France]

Director for Dismantling and Decommissioning, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

*Available only in Japanese*Bookings for consultations (telephone/in-person) with a lawyer at our Tokyo headquarters are accepted.

*Available only in Japanese*Bookings for consultations (telephone/in-person) with a lawyer at our Tokyo headquarters are accepted as detailed above in ‘Provision of Information’

Bookings for consultations (telephone/in-person) with a lawyer at our Tokyo

headquarters are accepted as detailed above in ‘Provision of Information’

When a nuclear facility operator requires the support of the NDF in the provision of compensation,

the NDF works with the nuclear facility operator to create a Special Business Plan and then provides

financial assistance after obtaining the approval of the competent ministers.

The NDF is currently providing financial support to TEPCO in the form of funding grants and share

subscription.

*Available only in Japanese*Bookings for consultations (telephone/in-person) with a lawyer at our Tokyo headquarters are accepted.

*Available only in Japanese*Bookings for consultations (telephone/in-person) with a lawyer at our Tokyo headquarters are accepted as detailed above in ‘Provision of Information’

Bookings for consultations (telephone/in-person) with a lawyer at our Tokyo

headquarters are accepted as detailed above in ‘Provision of Information’

1. Developing Specific Strategies to Deal with Main Decommissioning Challenges

With experts gathered from Japan and around the world, the Decommissioning Office formulates strategies to deal with main mid-and-long term challenges in the decommissioning of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. Fukushima Daiichi NPS, such as methods of retrieval of fuel which has melted then hardened (fuel debris) and the radioactive waste management, and supports decommissioning work.With the aim of contributing to the steady implementation of, to the investigation into the revision of, and the provision of a sound technical foundation for the government’s Mid-and-Long Term Roadmap*1, the Strategic Plan*2 has been created as a mid-and-long term technical strategy for decommissioning. The Strategic Plan 2018 was created on October 2, 2018 based on the progress made on site and in terms of technology development and other activities over the course of the year since the Strategic Plan 2017 was created. This plan will be regularly revised in consideration of progress at the site and of technological developments, etc., and the NDF will continue to advance technical considerations in the plan.Additionally, the NDF offers technical advice, etc., for addressing important immediate concerns held by the Japanese government and TEPCO, such as measures to deal with contaminated water.*1: Mid-and-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company

Holdings, Inc.*2: Technical Strategic Plan for Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.

2. R&D Project Management

The decommissioning of severely damaged reactors like those at the Fukushima Daiichi NPS is unprecedented in history. The process therefore calls for research and development of new technologies and technical systems. In order to avoid delays in on-site decommissioning work, the NDF is involved in planning the systematic promotion of required R&D, and engages in progress management, evaluation, etc., of these plans.In addition, NDF has formed the Decommissioning R&D Partnership Council with the aim of effectively tying various research and development initiatives being undertaken by related organizations on the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi NPS to actual decommissioning work.

3. Decommissioning based on the decommissioning reserve fund system

As the leading body in the management and supervision of the decommissioning by TEPCO, the NDF (1) decides the amount that TEPCO should hold in reserve with NDF each fiscal year on the basis of reserve fund for decommissioning, and (2) works with TEPCO to create a “Withdrawal Plan*3 ” for the return of funds required for decommissioning by TEPCO from the reserve fund for decommissioning and other such matters to ensure decommissioning is implemented appropriately and steadily.*3: Withdrawal Plan for Reserve Fund for Decommissioning.

4. Dissemination of Information

In order to ensure the appropriate and steady decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the NDF works to disseminate accurate and transparent information domestically and overseas in a timely and appropriate manner through the International Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station*4 and other such venues, and through continued careful communication and conversations with the local residents, also works to foster mutual understanding. The NDF also works to enhance collaboration with related domestic and international organizations through the conclusion of cooperation agreements and so on.*4: The 3rd International Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station held on August 5-6, 2018

In order to ensure that a complex and multilayered large-scale project like the decommissioning of reactors that have suffered a catastrophic accident proceeds in a safe and steady manner over the long term, it is necessary to integrate knowledge and intelligence from a wide range of industries, including but not limited to the nuclear industry, from around domestically and internationally.The NDF invites experts in strategic studies, R&D, project management, and safety regulations from the US, UK, and France to act as International Special Advisors to consider how to proceed with the work described above, and works closely with related organizations overseas.

International experts also participated in the 3rd Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (August 5-6, 2018)

Enhancement of International Cooperation

Publication: July 2019