Conference Overview

The 35^th International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe brought together 257 participants from 23 countries.

Highlights of the conference were:

• 4 invited lectures and
• 141 papers were presented: 42 papers presented orally and 99 papers presented as posters.

​We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the invited lecturers and authors for their excellent contributions. Special thanks go to the members of the Program committee, who solicited papers and elaborated the conference program.

We kept also the conference tradition and organized the Young authors contest. We would like to thank 27 young authors who participated in the contest and delivered excellent three-minute presentations. Special thanks go to the members of the Young Author Award Committee who diligently worked through the excellent papers.

The young author awards were given to:

Nazia Rahim Ananya for the paper “Predicting Quench Front Progression in Debris Beds: A Machine Learning Approach Based on FLOAT”, co-authored by Sergio Iván Cáceres Castro, Jörg Starflinger

and

Katerina Paskova for the paper “Reactivity Control of a Multifunctional UZrH Fueled Microreactor”, co-authored by Andrej Trkov, Tanja Goričanec.

Following the tradition of previous meetings we have also organized the Best Poster Award. We also thank the members of the Best Poster Award Committee who evaluated the posters according to clearness of objectives, results and conclusions, aesthetics and attractiveness, as well as according to scientific relevance.

The best poster awards were given to posters entitled:

“Neutronic Characterisation of a Reconfigurable Reflector for the VERONICA Multi-Purpose Research Reactor” by Blaž Levpušček, Anže Pungerčič, Luka Snoj.

Finally, we would also like to recognize the support of the Nuclear Society of Slovenia and the Nuclear Training Centre (ICJT) of the Jožef Stefan Institute as the co-organizers and the support of our sponsors.