Opening Ceremony

Asif Arastu, Chair ICONE31
Hidehito Mimaki, Chair ICONE31
Jianqiao LIU, Chair ICONE31
Jiří Duspiva, Czech Nuclear Society

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WELCOME REMARKS

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Leon Cizelj
Jozef Stefan Institute

Fellow ASME. Associate member of the Engineering Academy of Slovenia.

Head of Reactor Engineering Division of the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the division active in the field of nuclear engineering and safety of nuclear installations.

Activities include research, postgraduate education, technical and scientific support to the Slovenian nuclear regulatory body and technical and scientific consulting to end users.

Full professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Faculty of mathematics and physics.

President of the ENEN (European Nuclear Education Network) 2016-2020 and European Nuclear Society 2022-23.

Member of the Board of Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (www.SNETP.eu) and European Technical Safety Organization Network

Member of the editorial boards of Nuclear Engineering and Design and Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations.

Ph. D. in Physics 1993, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Author or coauthor of more than 950 publications more than 200 interventions in the Slovenian mainstream media (energy, nuclear energy, COVID-19 epidemics).

 

The Plenary is on current status of nuclear power, including the operating reactors built since 1970s, new constructions, new designs including advanced reactors, nuclear power share in electricity production, nuclear industry initiatives, challenges and opportunities

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The plenary on the future of nuclear power, examines the roles of nuclear power in energy production in future to address global warming, new designs and capability to cater new demands in energy including non-applications, varied applications of nuclear power including propulsion and transport, chemical and hydrone production, integrated system with renewables.

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The plenary on Small Modular Reactor -Global Perspective examines SMR development, types of SMRs, international collaborations, construction potentials, economic impacts, and SMR applications.

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