In line with IASMiRT practice, the proceedings of SMiRT 28 will be available on this website from February 15th, i.e., six months after the end of the conference. The Jaeger Lecture was presented by Professor Victor Snell of AECL Canada entitled Nuclear Safety – Past and Future.
The Kennedy Award for best paper in Bob Kennedy’s areas of interest went to Yann LePape on Structural Performance of In-service Irradiated Concrete Biological Shield and Reactor Support System During a Loss of Cooling Accident. The Heki Shibata Early Career award finalists were:
- Dr Cédric Sénac of EDF R&D
- Mr Jan Attinger of Basier Hofmann AG
- Mr Marounne Lahmidi of AEC Paris
- Dr Mrinal Jyoti Mahanta of Holted International
- Dr Taro Yaoyama of University of Tokyo and
- Mr Jingoo Lee of UNIST Republic of Korea
Sadly, a regular delegate of SMiRT conferences passed away at the beginning of the SMiRT 28 in Toronto – Professor Paulo Frutuoso e Melo from Brazil. The board, on behalf of themselves and the whole SMiRT community, send their sincere condolences his family and friends. A brief biography of Professor Frutuoso e Melo has been provided by his wife:
Professor Paulo Fernando Ferreira Frutuoso e Melo was a Full Professor in the Graduate Program in Nuclear Engineering [The Nuclear Engineering Program (PEN) in Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE-UFRJ)] for 38 years and also worked in the Department of Nuclear Engineering (DNC) at the Polytechnic School of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He contributed fundamentally to the creation of the undergraduate program in Nuclear Engineering, whose first class entered in 2010.
He was Head of the DNC between 2007 and 2009, Vice-Coordinator of the PEN during that same period, and Coordinator of the program from 2016 to 2021. His work also included leadership of the COPPE Teaching Committee, research at the National Center for Translational Research and Medicine (NCT-RMI), which is part of the Brazilian government’s initiative to improve the efficiency and ethical responsibility of the supply chain in the electronic sector, on topics such as advanced reactors and fluid dynamics, and training professionals in Probabilistic Safety Analysis and the reliability of nuclear systems.
His academic career includes a bachelor’s degree in Physics (1977), a master’s degree (1981), and a doctorate (1993) in Nuclear Engineering, all from UFRJ.