HIRONO Muneyasu

CEO, SHINWA KOUGYOU Co.,LTD.

Date of birth: June 20, 1962

Current address: Onahama, Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture

Birthplace: Kawamata-cho, Date-gun, Fukushima Prefecture (address at the time of the 2011 East Japan earthquake)

In 1986, he joined SHINWA KOUGYOU Co., Ltd. He has been involved in nuclear power plants at locations including Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini, KashiwazakiKariwa, Naka Fusion Research Institute, Tsuruga, and Onagawa. His main duties have included testing and maintenance of instrumentation equipment.

He was stationed in Kashiwazaki during the 2004 Chuetsu Earthquakes and 2007 Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake and experienced the disaster.

In 2009, SHINWA KOUGYOU established a business for the sale of radiation measurement instruments and entered into an agency agreement with OHYO KOKEN KOGYO CO.,LTD.. The company has been supplying products to Fukushima Daiichi NPP.

During the 2011 East Japan earthquake, he was serving as the Site Manager at SHINWA KOUGYOU. After the disaster, the company launched an environmental improvement business, beginning radiation measurements both before and after decontamination.

In 2022, he became the President and CEO of SHINWA KOUGYOU. The company participated in the pre-commissioning inspections of Onagawa NPP Unit 2 and is currently cooperating in the equipment inspections of Kashiwazaki Kariwa NPP Unit 6.