All news

The exploration of the now-digitized Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks continues to amaze the worldwide scientific community. A few weeks ago, engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) analyzed a series of drawings that clearly indicated that, two centuries before Newton, the Renaissance artist and polymath had devised experiments to investigate the nature of gravity. Today, a researcher at the Fusion Plasma Physics Department of the Hungarian Centre for Energy Research, Daniel Dunai, has dug …

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), visited the Centre for Energy Research. During the visit, Ákos Horváth, Director General of EK-CER, presented the activities of the Centre, highlighting the results achieved in the framework of Nuclear Forensic Analytical cooperation. In 2016 and 2021, the Agency chose our Research Center as a Collaborating Centre in Nuclear Forensics. The staff of the Radiation Safety Laboratory support the Agency’s activities in various training …

Claire Legras, Ambassador of France and her delegation paid a visit to the Centre for Energy Research on 16 February on the invitation of Dr. Ákos Horváth, Director General of EK-CER. At the meeting, the Director General presented the strategic directions of the Research Centre. Special attention was given to the existing and planned collaborations with French institutes and companies in the field of nuclear energy. EK-CER has long-standing cooperations with CEA and IRSN institutes …

PMI’s 10th jubilee Conference entitled “Art of Projects” was organized by the PMI Budapest, Hungarian Chapter. Tony Appleby (MBA, CDir, PMP Chair Emeritus, PMI), Honorary Chairman of the Project Management Institute – PMI Board of Directors opened the event on November 3, 2022. Balázs Zábori, EK-CER’s space engineer and program manager of the HUNOR – Hungarian to Orbit Astronaut Program was the main speaker at this year’s conference. Balázs Zábori introduced the HUNOR Program announced by the …

The Fusion Plasma Physics Department of ELKH’s Centre for Energy Research has been collaborating with the ITER Organization to build a support laboratory to develop and test technology for ITER’s Disruption Mitigation System (DMS). After less than two years, the test bench is fully operational and producing large pellets to study their formation, firing and shattering. This project is a major part of ITER’s large-scale international effort to develop and validate the design of the …

A team from the ELKH Centre for Energy Research, Hungary, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, has recently published work that may help provide insights into the variable response of cells to radiation exposure and cancer radiotherapy. Scientists have looked at the effect of irradiating cells in culture for some years now, measuring the fraction of cells capable of cell division after radiation exposure. Surprisingly, many cell lines show hyper-radiosensitivity at very low doses, …

Paris, June 13, 2022. The European Partnership for Radiation Protection Research will contribute to improving the protection of the public, workers, patients and the environment from environmental, occupational and medical exposure to ionizing radiation. It brings together 58 partners representing 22 European Union countries as well as the United Kingdom and Norway, and is coordinated by the French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). It is co-financed by the European Union’s EURATOM program …

The dosimeters of the Space Research Department of the ELKH Centre for Energy Research (CER) are also part of the experiment that takes place in the first mission of NASA’s Artemis program. The mission will provide key data on the cosmic radiation field for the future creation of human crewed spacecraft, a lunar orbiting space station, and a lunar base. Ready to launch According to the latest information, the launch window for the first phase …

At a livestreamed event in Brussels on 5 July 2022, EUROfusion will celebrate the start of conceptual design activities for Europe’s first demonstration fusion power plant DEMO. This first-of-a-kind fusion device would demonstrate the net production of 300 to 500 megawatts of clean and safe fusion energy to the grid by the middle of the century. The Horizon EUROfusion event is the first in a planned annual series where the EUROfusion consortium celebrates European progress …