PHOENIX - Acting EM Assistant Secretary, Sue Cange, met with senior Japanese officials last week to discuss continued collaboration on the cleanup of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant since the March 2011 incident.
On the sidelines of the 2017 Waste Management Symposium, Cange met with senior representatives from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation. Cange expressed her desire to further strengthen bilateral partnerships, both at the government and industry level, and to further develop the on-going cooperation between both nations. Cange explained how the remediation efforts at Fukushima have a lot in common with the remediation challenges the EM program has tackled over the past 25-plus years, as well as some of the more difficult issues currently facing the cleanup program.
Both sides expressed their desire to further strengthen and establish a long-term strategic relationship based on collaborating on environmental clean-up and decommissioning activities. Japan was the featured country at this year’s Waste Management conference.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
