WANO General Meeting in 2002 (Seoul, Korea)

1. Place Seoul, Korea

2. Period 18-19 March 2002

3. Participants 350 participants from 35 countries and regions

<Main Participants from Japan>

• Hirosato Sakamoto, Vice President, Hokkaido Electric Power Company
• Yutaka Sudo, Managing Director, Tohoku Electric Power Company
• Nobuya Minami, President, Tokyo Electric Power Company
• Hiroji Ota, President, Chubu Electric Power Company
• Minoru Ishihara, Vice President, Hokuriku Electric power Company
• Yohsaku Fuji, President, Kansai Electric Power Company
• Shigeo Suehiro, Managing Director, Chugoku Electric Power Company
• Katsumi Ota, Vice President, Shikoku Electric Power Company
• Michisada Kamata, President, Kyushu Electric Power Company
• Wataru Shinoda, Managing Director, the Japan Atomic Power Company
• Yoshihikjo Nakagaki, President, Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.
• Motohide Sato, President, the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry
• Yasumasa Togo President, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute
• Isami Kojima, Vice Chairman, the Federation of Electric Power Companies

4. Agenda

18 March

• Speech by Zack Pate, WANO Chairman
• Panel session on various WANO program activities
• Special lecture
• Panel session on nuclear safety issues

19 March

• Session on nuclear energy generation at the present and in the future
• Speech by the outgoing President, Choi Soo-Byung
• Election of new president

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<Appendix>
22 February 2002
Federation of Electric Power Companies

Outline of WANO

1. Name

WANO (World Association of Nuclear Operators)

2. History

WANO was established in May 1989, in the wake of the Chernobyl accident, at the proposal of the late Lord Marshall. Its purpose is to promote nuclear power generation safety, and allow operators around the world to exchange information on control procedures and performance at nuclear power generating facilities.

3. Major Activities

• Information exchange on operating controls and problems
• Conducting peer reviews
• Exhibitions, workshops, seminars, etc.
• Direct exchange of information and technology through exchange visits
• Mutual exchange of successful case studies and operating indicators
• A general meeting is held once every other year at a mutually agreed location (Originally scheduled for September 2001, the Seoul General Assembly meeting was postponed until March 2002 due to the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11, 2001.)
• The 2003 general meeting will be held in Berlin Germany.

4. Outline of Organization (as of February 2002)

5. WANO Member Countries by Regional Center

Atlanta Center United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil*, Slovenia, Rumania, Pakistan*, India* Moscow Center Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland**, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Iran Paris Center France, England, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, Finland**, South Africa, Brazil*, Argentina, China** Tokyo Center Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India*, Pakistan*, China*

Note: * indicates countries which belong to more than one center. ** indicates countries whose nuclear power plants belong to the different centers

6. History of WANO General Meeting

	Place	President
1st Meeting (1991)	Atlanta	William S Lee (Chairman, Duke Power Company, US)
2nd Meeting (1993)	Tokyo	Shoh Nasu (President, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan)
3rd Meeting (1995)	Paris	Ian MacRae (COE, ESKOM, South Africa)
4th Meeting (1997)	Prague	Eric Pozdyshev (ROSENERGOATOM, Russia)
5th Meeting (1999)	Victoria (Canada)	Allan kupcis (CEO & President, Ontario Hydro, Canada)