The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) is the largest public multidisciplinary research organisation in Spain. CSIC collaborates with national and international universities, public RTD organisations, SMEs, companies and other institutions of a scientific and technological nature. It has a staff of more than 13500 employees, of which about 3500 are permanent researchers and more than 4000 are pre- and post-doctoral researchers. CSIC has 135 institutes or centres distributed throughout Spain, including 51 Joint Research Units with universities or other research institutions. It has also a delegation in Brussels, Belgium.
Relevant experience
It has considerable experience in both participating and managing RTD projects and training of research personnel. Under the 6th Framework Programme, CSIC has coordinated 37 of the 404 signed actions it has signed. CSIC has been the 5th organisation in Europe in project execution and funding in the 6th Framework Programme. Under the 7th Framework Programme CSIC has signed as of today more than 440 projects, including 42 coordinated by CSIC as well as 22 ERC.
Scientific and technical personnel involved
The Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) is one of the largest institutes at CSIC, dedicated to basic and applied research in subatomic physics. Dr. Jose L. Tain is leading the Experimental Nuclear Physics Group at IFIC since more than 25 years. The group is working on several applications of advanced experimental techniques related to the improvement of reactor technology.
With more than 120 publications, Dr. Jose L. Tain has contributed decisively to the improvement of techniques for the measurement of neutron capture cross sections at neutron time of flight facilities with improved accuracy. Particularly relevant for this proposal are his experimental studies of decay data for fission products. He has developed new analysis methodologies for beta decay total absorption gamma ray spectroscopy, which have a direct impact on the improvement of reactor decay heat summation calculations. He has also developed a new neutron counter for accurate measurements of beta delayed neutron emission probabilities, for improved calculations of the reactor delayed neutron fraction. He is a consultant of IAEA, NEA and JEFF for these matters.