William “Ike” White, senior adviser and acting head of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, spoke Monday to an international forum in Japan on Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the nuclear cleanup office said Tuesday.
The 7th annual international forum on Fukushima cleanup sponsored by Japan’s Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation, attracted more than 500 participants during the two-day event, DOE said in a news release.
White spoke during the second day of the forum, the day when technical experts discussed debris retrieval at the Fukushima plant. “Through our international partnerships, we can continue to work together and learn from each other,” White said in the DOE press release.
This year’s forum occurs on the heels of Japan starting to release treated radioactive wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, a move that triggered opposition from some countries, including China, CNN reported.
There was a meltdown accident at Fukushima on March 11, 2011, as a major earthquake and accompanying tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Tokyo Electric Power Fukushima Daiichi reactors, in one of the world’s most severe nuclear accidents.
