About Technical Advisory Committee（TAC）

NUMO established the International Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) in June 2001, with the intention of transferring know-how from other national disposal programs to the Japanese program and also ensuring that NUMO's technical work is of an appropriate international standard.
In 2015, ITAC and DTAC (Domestic Technical Advisory Committee) were merged and the new advisory body was established as TAC (Technical Advisory Committee) which consists of both overseas and Japanese experts.

Committee member

Chairperson Takayuki Sasaki Professor, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Nuclear Engineering
Committee Tetsuro Hirono Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Science Department of Geosciences
Hiroyuki Inoue Associate Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Engineering, Division of Science and Engineering for Materials, Chemistry and Biology
Akira Kirishima Professor, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering, Energy Resources and Processing
Taishi Kobayashi Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Nuclear Engineering
Tomofumi Koyama Professor, Kansai University, Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences
Kenichiro Nakarai Professor, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering Program
Takumi Saito Professor, The University of Tokyo, School of Engineering, Nuclear Professional School
Tsutomu Sato Professor, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Engineering, Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering
Yukio Tachi Director, JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Horonobe Underground Research Center, Horonobe Underground Research Department
Keiko Tagami Group leader, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Quantum Medical Science Directorate
Koji Umeda Professor, Hirosaki University, Graduate School of Science and Technology
Hiroshi Abe Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Quantum Science and Energy Engineering
Vice Chairperson Ian McKinley McKinley Consulting, Executive Consultant
Committee Chris Boyle NWMO,Vice-President and Chief Engineer
Irina Gaus NAGRA, Division Head Optimisation
Neil Hyatt NWS, Chief Scientific Adviser
Haeryong Jung KORAD, Director of HLW Management
Magnus Odén SKB, Head of Site Descriptive Modelling
Sylvie Voinis ANDRA, Deputy Director of Safety, Environment and Waste Management Strategy Division (DISEF) and General Inspector
Erik K. Webb Sandia National Laboratories, Geoscience Research and Applications, Senior Manager

Records of the TAC meeting

Records of the ITAC meeting

＞The NUMO International Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC): Background, accomplishments and perspectives on the role of technical support groups　(830KB)PDF