SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS: INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
- Nuclear and particle physics
- Advanced electronics for radiation detection and radiation effects mitigation
- Innovative data analysis methodologies
- Simulation and modeling
SPACE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
- Electronics and sensors vulnerability
- Very low power and mass sensors
- Miniaturization design techniques
- Onboard control and data processing units
- Robust and hardened architectures
FUSION DIAGNOSTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Burning plasma diagnostics
- Radiation hardened detectors and electronics
- Experimental techniques for high-T plasmas
- High-availability electronics for DAQ
and control
RESEARCH REACTORS AND PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
- Calibration and tests of mock-up sensors under laboratory conditions (thermal-hydraulic, mechanical, thermal studies)
- Radiation detection
- In-pile measurements of physical parameter including temperature, dimensions, gas release
- Accelerator beam diagnostics and
characterization - Material testing reactors safety experiments
- Accelerator beam position monitors
- Beam loss/beam profile measurement
- Optical diagnostics
- Collision rate measurement
NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE
- Nuclear power plants (GEN II, GEN III, GEN III+)
- GEN IV reactors (SFR, LFR, VHTR, GFR,…)
ENVIRONMENTAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Advancements in mass spectrometry
measurements - Application of radioactive tracers
- Radiography, imagery, tomography
- Methods in extreme conditions
- Medical Imaging systems (PET, SPECT, CT, MRI…)
NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS, HOMELAND SECURITY And CBRN
- Illicit trafficking
- First responder prompt nuclear measurements intervention
- Customs border inspections and access controls of radiological elements in transit
- Radiological threats detection and identification
- High efficiency neutron measurements
- Active and Passive interrogation techniques
- (X-rays, gammas and neutrons)
DECOMMISSIONING, DISMANTLING AND REMOTE HANDLING
- Materials and radioactive wastes management
- Techniques and process improvements, radiological characterization, waste treatment, decontamination
- Remote handling
SEVERE ACCIDENT MONITORING
- High temperature and pressure measurements
- Radiation measurement in harsh media
- Electronics hardening
- Wireless and remote robotic measurements
- Simulation and modeling
CURRENT TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
RADIATION DETECTORS
- Current trends in scintillator detectors and materials
- State-of-the-art radiation detectors for medical imaging
- Engineering of scintillation materials and radiation technologies
- Progress in the development of semiconductor radiation detectors
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND OUTREACH
- Experimental sciences
- Basics in instrumentation and measurement sciences and technologies
- Measurement methods and their applications
- PhD. and summer schools, refresh courses
- Communicating nuclear to the public