Foreword
The annual conference of the Nuclear Society of
Slovenia is a traditional meeting of professionals, researchers,
academics, members of regulatory bodies and others involved in the
peaceful use of nuclear energy. The international conference "Nuclear
Energy for New Europe 2005" was the fourteenth in the series, which
started in 1992. This year, the conference was attended by 197 registered
participants from 24 countries. The conference thus proved to be an
international forum for the exchange of ideas from various topics related
to nuclear energy.
The editorial activities of these proceedings started
in the spring of 2005 with the issuing of the Call for papers. In June,
the meeting of the Program committee was held in Ljubljana, where 177
submitted abstracts were considered and the program of the conference was
outlined. At the conference, five invited lectures, one keynote lecture
and 144 papers were presented (69 papers as oral presentations and 75 as
posters). After the review process, 132 final papers were submitted for
publication in the proceedings.
Following the tradition of previous meetings, the
contest for best papers by first authors aged no more than 32 years was
also organized to foster the development of future nuclear professionals.
This year, the awards were presented to Jiŕi Kŕepel from
Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (Germany) and Miroslav Babić from the Jožef
Stefan Institute (Slovenia).
We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to
the Jožef Stefan Institute and to all other sponsors and organizations
that contributed to the success of the meeting. In particular, we would
like to thank the members of the Program committee who elaborated the
conference programme, the members of the Award committee who selected the
best papers by young authors, the Session chairs who ensured a smooth
running of the conference, and the reviewers who contributed to the final
form of these proceedings. Finally, we would also like to acknowledge the
dedication and work of all the members of the Organizing committee, of
Darja, Uršula, Petra and Damjana at the registration desk, and of all
others who contributed to the organization of the conference.
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Ivo Kljenak
Chairman of the Organizing committee |
Borut Mavko
Chairman of the Program committee |
Ljubljana, December 2005
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