ARAI Shiro

President, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (JAIF)

Shiro Arai is President of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (JAIF), the leading private-sector organization for Japan’s nuclear industry to promote peaceful use of nuclear power. He was appointed to his current position as well as President of the JAIF International Cooperation Center (JICC) in August 2020.

Prior to joining JAIF, Mr. Arai served as Director and Deputy Chief Nuclear Officer of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO). He has 37 years of experience in nuclear power generation at TEPCO.

Mr. Arai began his career with TEPCO in 1982 as a nuclear engineer at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. He had been in charge of fuel & core management at 2 nuclear power stations (Fukushima Daiichi and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa) early in his career.

Before taking on his position as Director and Deputy Chief Nuclear Officer in 2019, Mr. Arai also held various general management positions such as Site Superintendent of the Higashidori NPP Construction Office, Superintendent of the Nuclear Safety Center and Deputy Site Manager of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa NPS, and Deputy General Manager of the Nuclear Quality & Safety Management Dept. at the Headquarters.

He received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering in 1982 from the University of Tokyo.