Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Acronym
CNRS
Country
France

CNRS is a government-funded research organization under the administrative authority of the French Ministry of Research. As the largest fundamental research organization in Europe with an annual budget representing a quarter of French public spending on civil research, CNRS carries out research in all fields of knowledge and, in particular, in nuclear physics through one of its institutes: the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3). IN2P3/CNRS's mission is to promote and coordinate the research activities in nuclear physics, high-energy physics and their applications. In the field of nuclear energy, it coordinates the interdisciplinary program "Nuclear, Energy, Environment and Society" (NEEDS) on behalf of CNRS and universities, in partnership with CEA, AREVA, EDF, IRSN and ANDRA.

IN2P3/CNRS pursues front-line scientific research and participates in the education and instruction of (graduate) students and post-docs in preparing them for future careers in industry and academia. The 20 IN2P3 laboratories actively stimulate and participate in interdisciplinary fields of research, both within and outside of France.

Relevant experience

CNRS operates the state-of-the-art accelerator facilities GANIL at Caen (together with CEA-DSM) and has experience with trans-national access to its facilities in earlier EC framework programs, providing access to ALTO at Orsay and AIFIRA at Bordeaux (WP4, WP5). Furthermore, each participating CNRS laboratory has several specialized services that do research in the field of nuclear energy, and especially in nuclear data. The members of these groups have successful experience with running advanced accelerator facilities, management of large collaborations and are recognised experts in techniques related to nuclear data. This expertise is two-fold: on one side, experimental developments, data-acquisition systems, construction of large detector set-ups (WP8), and on another side Monte-Carlo simulations dedicated to reactor safety (WP9). Moreover, thanks to its expertise in thin foils fabrication and in radiochemistry, CNRS/IN2P3 has recently developed a radioactive target laboratory at Orsay (CACAO, Actinide Chemistry and radioactive Target at Orsay), the responsible of which is the coordinator of the WP3. Therefore, they can optimally fulfill all tasks they have been attributed within CHANDA.

Scientific and technical personnel involved

The scientific staff of CNRS responsible for CHANDA is the co-director of this program.

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