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Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
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Remembering Charles E. Till
Charles E. Till
Charles E. Till, an ANS member since 1963 and Fellow since 1987, passed away on March 22 at the age of 89. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Imperial College, University of London. Till initially worked for the Civilian Atomic Power Department of the Canadian General Electric Company, where he was the physicist in charge of the startup of the first prototype CANDU reactor in Canada.
Till joined Argonne National Laboratory in 1963 in the Applied Physics Division, where he worked as an experimentalist in the Fast Critical Experiments program. He then moved to additional positions of increasing responsibility, becoming division director in 1973. Under his leadership, the Applied Physics Division established itself as one of the elite reactor physics organizations in the world. Both the experimental (critical experiments and nuclear data measurements) and nuclear analysis methods work were internationally recognized. Till led Argonne’s participation in the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE), and he was the lead U.S. delegate to INFCE Working Group 5, Fast Breeders.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021 Speaker
1987 Joined Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc.
1990 Nuclear Power Technology Group, Nuclear Power Generation Dept., TEPCO Head Office
1998 TEPCO Washington D.C. Office
2004 Group Manager, Nuclear Reactor Safety Group, Nuclear Power Technology, Safety and Quality Dept., TEPCO Head Office
2007 Licensed Senior Engineer of Reactor Safety, Fukushima Daiichi NPS
2009 General Manager, Maintenance Dept., Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPS
2012 Group Manager, Nuclear Security &Industrial Safety Management Group, Nuclear Power Plant Management Dept., TEPCO Head Office
2016 Deputy Superintendent of Fukushima Daiichi NPS, FDEC
2018 Temporarily assigned to Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)
2020 Superintendent, Safety and Quality Office, FDEC
2021 Current Position
Tatsuya Taminami is Executive Vice President of Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC).
He joined Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. in 1987 and he has long experience in the reactor safety assessment area, as well as in emergency preparedness and nuclear security.
Since 2020, when he was Superintendent of the Safety and Quality Office in FDEC, he has been responsible for maintaining and improving safety and quality in decommissioning work at Fukushima Daiichi.
His mission now is to reduce risk at Fukushima Daiichi steadily by proceeding with many projects in a safe and timely manner.
Last modified August 24, 2021, 4:15pm EDT