Dear friends, 

After another challenging year for all of us, we would like to send you and your families the best wishes for the holiday season and a good and healthy start into the year 2022.

All along, the SMiRT 26 team keeps on planning for our conference in July of next year. We have received over 600 abstracts and the information of the authors of accepted papers started as well as the submission of full papers. 

Latest news is that IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi has agreed to give the keynote speech during the opening session. Furthermore, the Jaeger Lecture on “Airplane Impact on Nuclear Installations” has been assigned and is scheduled for the opening day. A Post-Seminar is agreed and the planning started.

Join the discussions under our motto “Building the future on 50 Years of experience – It’s SMiRT to embrace change”. Share state of the art developments, scientific and technological innovations, and present your company to the audience. SMiRT 26 will bring leaders, managers and engineers from around the world together to drive innovation for safe, reliable and efficient nuclear energy in the face of the global energy transition. The conference will make a significant contribution to the safety and reliability of nuclear facilities all over the world. It will also help to build, advance and retain scientific-technical expertise and to support young engineers and researchers in the area of nuclear safety.

We also invite you and your companies to look at the possibilities to support the conference through sponsorships or participating in the exhibition (check out the tab with the interactive tool). 

Jörg Aign
Conference Chair

September 20, 2021 marks the 50^th anniversary of Thomas Jaeger’s opening of SMiRT 1 in Berlin. Remembering that date, we posted the above video message for your kind consideration. We hope all this will motivate you to join us from July 10 through 15, 2022 for SMiRT 26 as the next in-person conference in the long SMiRT tradition and make it a memorable conference.

SMiRT 26 will continue the Early Career Shibata Award. The objective of the award is to identify and recognize outstanding work of young and early career professionals, defined here as participants who have earned a Bachelor’s degree within 10 years of July 2022.

At the time of registration, authors have to indicate if they want their paper to be considered for the Heki Shibata Early Career Award. The early career professional must be (a) the first author of the paper, and (b) the presenter of the paper at the conference. The ISC Division Coordinators will identify papers for further consideration. An expert panel will then rank these papers based on technical merit and innovation, and a member from the expert review panel will attend the presentations of these top ranked papers. Finally, the expert panel will rank the papers using a composite ranking of 70 % for paper content and 30 % for the presentation. A total of 3 awards will be presented - a cash award of €1000 and a free conference registration at the next conference (SMiRT 27) for the winner, and cash awards of €500 and €250 for the first and second runners up, respectively.