Reactor physics

As I perused several back issues of Physics Today to get some feeling for how symposia were being reported, it soon became obvious that there just is no other conference like the Geneva “Atoms for Peace” Conference. More than 2000 papers were submitted for the proceedings. 600 of which were covered in oral presentations during the nearly 80 sessions held over a two‐week period. The number of topics treated far exceeded the number of sessions, and the attendees exceeded the speakers by approximately 10:1, at least in registration.