EU FP7 ERINDA
ERINDA (European Research Infrastructure for Nuclear Data) is the successor project of the EFNUDAT. ERINDA was started on 2010-12-01, with a 3-year long duration, with 14 member institutes across the continent, lead by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). The ERINDA project aims for a coordination of European efforts to exploit up-to-date neutron beam technology for novel research on advanced concepts for nuclear fission reactors and the transmutation of radioactive waste. Such waste is already existing in appreciable quantity due to the year-long operation of existing nuclear reactors and it will eventually also be generated during the running of new reactor types – albeit they can be optimized to produce much less of it.
Research to the aim of finding techniques optimized for a strong reduction of nuclear waste can already now be performed at existing nuclear facilities from the consortium proposed in this proposal and the main objective is to provide adequate transnational access to these infrastructures. The consortium will also provide funding for scientific support of experiments by short term visits of scientist to the participating facilities and foster the communication and dissemination of the results by organizing scientific workshops.
The proposals are reviewed by a Programme Advisory Committee (PAC). Approved
experiments will get the necessary beam time. The user groups can also
be supported for their travel and the accommodation and subsistence
costs during the time required for the experiment.
The official website of the project is at http://www.erinda.org.
EU FP7 CHARISMA
duration: 2009.10-2013.10The CHARISMA transnational access (TA) programs, offer European scientists a to carry out their experiments utilizing 3 different and complementary groups of facilities (ARCHLAB, MOLAB and FIXLAB) through a service embedded in a multidisciplinary environment involving material science and artwork conservation/restoration.
The Budapest Neutron Centre – with the leadership of Research Institute of Solid State Physics and Optics and in cooperation with the Institute of Isotopes, HAS and with the Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, HAS – participates in the FIXLAB program, as a Transnational Access provider. FIXLAB provides access to large and medium scale European installations, including the beamlines of one synchrotron radiation, one neutron source and two ion-beam analytical facilities.
NORMA
NAP VENEUS
Summary:
a) strengthen the regional neutron research collaboration in Central Europe, essentially by improving and development of equipment and access services at the Budapest Neutron Centre (BNC);
b) establish formal research and instrument development co-operation with Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) at Grenoble, providing in this way access for the Hungarian R&D communities to the world leading neutron facilities;
c) perform high level research with special emphases on bio- and nanotechnology related materials, engineering systems with industrial relevance as well as for exploring objects of cultural heritage and ancient technologies.
The project will be performed by a consortium of 4 Hungarian research institutes in co-operation with the ILL – as international centre, and 8 industrial subcontractors. The instrument development programme will contribute to the construction of 3 unique instruments at BNC and one at ILL. Research based on these spectrometers will promote technology transfer towards industry, improve the number and quality of scientific publications, and strengthen the competitiveness for further national and EU grant applications. SME partners involved in instrument development expect considerable incomes due sales on the rapidly growing World market of neutron devices.
EU FP6 EFNUDAT
The main objective of EFNUDAT is to promote the coherent use and integration of infrastructure related services via networking, transnational access to the participating facilities for nuclear data measurements and joint research activities. EFNUDAT aims at providing a convenient platform to integrate all scientific efforts needed for high-quality nuclear data measurements in support of:
- waste transmutation studies and
- design studies for Gen-IV systems that include an objective of producing less waste.
Particular emphasis will be given to the following objectives:
- initiate networks leading to a stronger partnership in infrastructure management and exploitation
- promote access and coherent use of all participating infrastructures to meet the scientific and industrial nuclear data requests
- merge the complementary nuclear data measurement capabilities and expertise
Transnational Access to the EFNUDAT facilities
The unique combination of nuclear research facilities within the EFNUDAT consortium offers interesting measurement capabilities to endorse the neutron data requirements in the field of waste transmutation and innovative nuclear energy systems.Within the framework of its Transnational Access Activities the EFNUDAT consortium offers a total of 4015 supplementary data-taking hours to new external users. The proposals are peer-reviewed by a Programme Advisory Committee (PAC).
Approved experiments will get the necessary beam time. The user groups can also be supported for their travel and the accommodation and subsistence costs during the time required for the experiment.
The official website of the project is at http://www.efnudat.eu.
Information about our role in the project. http://www.efnudat.eu/docs/iki.pdf
The Institute hosted one of the collaboration workshops. The local website of the event is available at http://www.iki.kfki.hu/efnudat/ website.
ANCIENT CHARM
The acronym means: Analysis By Neutron Resonant Capture Imaging And Other Emerging Neutron Techniques: New Cultural Heritage And Archaeological Research Methods.Summary:
- Prompt-Gamma Activation Imaging combined with cold Neutron Tomography (PGAI/NT)
- Neutron Resonance Capture Imaging (NRCI), and
- Neutron Diffraction Tomography (NDT).
The official website of the project is at http://ancient-charm.neutron-eu.net/ach/
Bilateral international co-operations
- Hungarian and Polish Academy (Nuclear analytical methods in archaeology and art)
- MÖB-DAAD (Archaeometrical analysis of Neolithic potteries and comparison to potential sources of raw materials in their immediate environment)
- Hungarian-Croatian Collaboration (2008-2009, title: Archaeometry research of lithic raw materials for early neolithic prehistoric communities with the help of PGAA, with special regard to radiolarites and obsidian)
Co-ordinated research projects at IAEA, Nucl. Sciences and Appl., Vienna, Austria
- Applications
of nuclear analytical techniques to investigate the authenticity of art
objects: Archaeometry application of cold neutron based prompt gamma
neutron activation analysis
IAEA F23023 Co-ordinated Research Project (2004-2008) - Reference Database for Neutron Activation Analysis (2005-2008)
- Minor Actinide Reaction Data (Manread) (2007-2011)
National projects
- Improvement of the PGAA analytical library
- Applications of a New Non-destructive
Geochemical Method
(PGAA) in Archaeometry
OTKA - Hungarian Scientific Research Fund K 62874 - Research for the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority