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Head of JAEA quits over Monju inspection flaws
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000236017
Head of JAEA quits over Monju inspection flaws
May 18, 2013
Jiji Press
Japan Atomic Energy Agency President Atsuyuki Suzuki resigned Friday to take responsibility for a number of inspection flaws at the agency’s Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture.
At a press conference the same day, science and technology minister Hakubun Shimomura, who is charged with supervision of the government-affiliated body, said, “To regain the public’s trust in the agency, we’re ready to thoroughly revamp it.”
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After working as a professor in the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering, Suzuki took up the post of chairman of the now-defunct Nuclear Safety Commission in April 2006 and became JAEA president in August 2010.
He drew criticism last December by saying: “An accident can take place at any time. Mistakes in terms of formalities can happen.” He made the remarks after receiving instructions from the NRA urging the JAEA to investigate the cause of the Monju inspection flaws.
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Head of JAEA quits over Monju inspection flaws
May 18, 2013
Jiji Press
Japan Atomic Energy Agency President Atsuyuki Suzuki resigned Friday to take responsibility for a number of inspection flaws at the agency’s Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture.
At a press conference the same day, science and technology minister Hakubun Shimomura, who is charged with supervision of the government-affiliated body, said, “To regain the public’s trust in the agency, we’re ready to thoroughly revamp it.”
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After working as a professor in the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering, Suzuki took up the post of chairman of the now-defunct Nuclear Safety Commission in April 2006 and became JAEA president in August 2010.
He drew criticism last December by saying: “An accident can take place at any time. Mistakes in terms of formalities can happen.” He made the remarks after receiving instructions from the NRA urging the JAEA to investigate the cause of the Monju inspection flaws.
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