2021 Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
Crisis Management
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Akira Omoto / Satoshi Chiba / Hiroshi Sagara / Nakahiro Yasuda / Shinya Tominaga / Isao Itabashi / Shinetsu Sugawara / Tsuyoshi Nojima
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- NCL.O604
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The purpose of the series of lectures is to cultivate understanding on how the risk management scheme should be designed and implemented. Lecturers include experts from nuclear and non-nuclear field.
Enrolled students are supposed to belong to doctorial course.
Course description and aims
Understanding on how the risk management scheme should be designed and implemented
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Omoto: Experiences at Utility's nuclear power division helps his lecture on Crisis Management: its framework and the role of public authorities
Nojima: Experiences as a journalist of staying outside of Japan helps hi understanding of the strength in the background of pandemic strategy in the country and helps his lecture on Pandemic Crisis Management
Tominaga:Experiences of design at Toshiba in cyber security and information infrastructure helps his lecture on Cyber security and Information Infrastructure for Crisis Management
Itabashi: Experiences at professional activities at CPP helps his lecture on International Terrorism and Nuclear Security
Keywords
Crisis management
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lecture, discussion and exercise
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | (May 22 (Sat) 8:50-10:30) Crisis Management: its framework and the role of public authorities | Goal: Understand and be capable to discuss on the global framework for crisis management and the role of public authority in it. |
| Class 2 | (May 22 (Sat)10:45-12:25) Pandemic crisis management | Goal: Understand and be capable to discuss on what the crisis management framework should be on a national level. Pandemic crisis management is picked up as an example. |
| Class 3 | (May 22 (Sat)13:30-15:10) Fukui/Tsuruga model for Nuclear Emergency Management | Goal: Understand and be capable to discuss on offsite crisis management at a time of nuclear accident. Fukui/Tsuruga model is picked up as an example. |
| Class 4 | (May 23 (Sun) 8:50-10:30) Risk management and Communication | Goal: Understand and be capable to discuss on crisis communication, consensus communication and care communication including good practices and what they should be. |
| Class 5 | (May 23 (Sun) 10:45-12:25) Cyber-security and required information infrastructure to implement crisis management | Goal: Understand and be capable to discuss on cyber security especially vulnerability of nuclear power plants, its countermeasure. Also Understand and be capable to discuss on information infrastructure necessary for crisis management based on lessons learned from Fukushima-Daiichi Accident |
| Class 6 | (May 23 (Sun) 13:30-15:10) International terrorism and countermeasure, and nuclear security | Goal: Understand and be capable to discuss on the status and trend of terrorism, on what countermeasure is taken and should be taken, on the structure of nuclear security including differences from nuclear safety |
| Class 7 | (May 23 (Sun) 15:25-17:05) Discussion and Exercise | Goal: Capacity building for communication (which is critically important for crisis management) through discussion on a topical issue related to crisis management and exercise |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Jared Diamond, “Upheaval, How nations cope with crisis and change”, Penguin, 2019
Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Antifragile”, 2013
ISO standards 22301, 22320, 22325
Tetsuro Ito「National Crisis Management：Philosophy and Practice Learned from Examples」(Gyosei）
IAEA GSR Part7 “Preparedness and Response for a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency”
WHO Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management framework
Takeshi Nojima「Why Chinese Taipei successfully prevented COVID-19」（Fuso books）
Ian Mitroff, “Managing Crises before they happen”, ISBN-13: 978-4198614324
Hayashi and Yamaji, “Google’s decision when it faced crisis” (Japanese)
Tokyo chamber of Commerce, “Crisis Management manual” (Japanese)
IAEA Nuclear Security Series 22 “Cyber Security for Nuclear Security Professionals”
“Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System”, National Academy, USA
Chatham house report “Cyber Security at Civil Nuclear Facilities”
Evaluation methods and criteria
Participation to exercise, Report to check understanding, capability to recognize challenges and insights
Related courses
- NCL.O603 ： Risk Assessment and Management
Prerequisites
Understanding and knowledge of risk and risk management