Editor’s Notes on Icenes’2013, 16th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems

Abstract

The 16th ICENES 2013 was held in Madrid (Spain) on May 26e 30, 2013, by Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM), according to a scientific tradition of 35 years, started in 1978 as an autono mous, self-organized event, when a group of independent nuclear scientists met in Graz, Austria in order to find new routes for improving the use of the immense energy of the atomic nucleus. Throughout the years, ICENES became a very important series of well established conferences and acted as an open forum for inno vation and challenges in the field as long as they were based on sound deliberations and were addressing the key issue of providing energy for humankind.