Editorial of J NED Special Issue devoted to SWINTH

The workshop was conceived and organized by SILENCE (“Significant Light and Heavy Water Reactor Thermal Hydraulic Experiments Network for the Consistent Exploitation of the Data”), a Network of Companies and Research Organizations that are concerned with – and active in the area of – nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulic experimentation to support safety assessment and design of watercooled nuclear reactors. SILENCE Network was formally constituted in 2014 by AREVA GmbH (Germany; now Framatome), the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR, Germany), the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI, Korea), the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT, Finland), the Hungarian Academy of Science Centre for Energy Research (MTA EK, Hungary) and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland), with the San Piero a Grado Nuclear Research Group (GRNSPG, Italy) of the University of Pisa playing the role of Host Organization, and with administrative and managerial support from NINE – Nuclear and Industrial Engineering. More recently also the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA, France), Becker Technologies GmbH (Germany) and the State Power Investment Corporation Research Institute (SPICRI, China) have joined the Network.