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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 …

Dr. Csaba Balázsi, scientific advisor of the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, ELKH Centre for Energy Research was elected as Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics „ for outstanding contributions to ceramic science for applications ranging from engineering to biomedical fields and his outstanding efforts in collaboration and outreach for the ceramic community”. The formal induction ceremony held in Perugia (Italy) during the Inaugural Session of CIMTEC 2022 on June 21, 2022. …

Dr. Béla Faragó, head of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of BNC, distinguished scientist of Institute Laue Langevin (ILL), was elected as external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) in 2019. It was only 27 April, 2022 that Dr. Faragó’s membership was celebrated at HAS in Budapest. On this occasion academician Professor György Mihály, president of the Section of Physical Sciences of HAS praised the new member’s scientific career and academician Ferenc Mezei …