Report on activities of "Technical Committee on Mine Closure Activities of the Tono Mine"

Tsurudome, Koji; Suzuki, Hajime ; Aoki, Katsunori 

Tono Geoscience Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency has been conducting mine closure activities at Tono Mine based on "Plan for closure activities of the Tono Mine" since FY2010. The closure activities of the Tono Mine are carried out in accordance with the Mining Act, the Mine Safety Act and the Industrial Safety and Health Act. In particular, in order to examine the technologies applied to the closure activities of the Tono mine, also the surrounding environmental monitoring, "Technical Committee on Mine Closure Activities of the Tono Mine" was organized at Tono Geoscience Center in FY2013 and the results in the previous fiscal year and the plan for the current fiscal year have been reported and discussed at the annual meeting. As a result, it has been confirmed that the closure activities are making progress as planned and that the environment around the mine meets the legally required standards from the monitoring results. This document is a compilation of meeting materials of all eight committee meetings held between FY2013 and FY2019.