AFCONE Participation to the “ Harvard Belfer Center Managing the Atom Project” workshop convened on “Lessons learned on the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear accident and the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident”.

(05 March 2021)

AFCONE Participated to the learned on the 10^th anniversary of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear accident and the 35^th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. The workshop will be held online from Wednesday, March 3 to Friday, March 5, 2021.

The workshop gave the opportunity for practitioners and scholars to discuss both lessons successfully learned and implemented and steps still to be taken to strengthen nuclear safety, nuclear security, and national and global governance of nuclear technologies.  

The AFCONE Executive Secretary presented views at the opening panel on questions related to global nuclear governance, transparency and accountability, on how several African countries are preparing to develop nuclear safety and security regulatory policies and how the accident of Fukushima has impacted the prospects of nuclear energy in the Continent.

See the report summarizing key lessons and recommendations (HBC Webpage)

Nuclear Safety and Security After Chernobyl and Fukushima: Lessons Learned and Forgotten | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

MB AFCONE ES & Post Fukushima Nuclear Govern & Nuclear Safety Harvard Kennedy School BC 05 March 2021

Ten years after Fukushima: The experts examine lessons learned and forgotten – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org)