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Hungarian instruments in lunar orbit

Mankind has decided to take another big step in the conquest and utilization of outer space. In the mid-2020s, in international collaboration, a space station will be built in orbit around the Moon, called the Gateway. The TRITEL dosimeter, developed in the Space Research Department of the ELKH Centre for Energy Research, will be one of the components of the space station’s Internal Dosimeter Array (IDA), which has recently been approved by the European Space …

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A new H2020 neutron research project of the ELKH Centre for Energy Research was launched in January for the industrial introduction of an international materials testing standard

The researchers of the ELKH Centre for Energy Research (ELKH CER) have won an EU H2020 project proposal outstanding in terms of promoting innovation in Hungary. The CER staff of the Neutron Spectroscopy Department received the nearly 350 k€ project grant three-year for the development and introduction of a new industrial non-destructive materials testing standard. The EASI-STRESS project involves four major European research infrastructures (RIs), one university, two technology transfer companies and seven top industrial …

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Hungarian researchers found link between clinical characteristics of COVID-19 and the deposition of SARS-CoV-2 in the airways

SARS-CoV-2 virions that cause pneumonia originate not from elsewhere but from the the upper airways of the some patient – turned out from the work of Hungarian researchers, which was published at the end of the last year by Scientifc Reports. They have shown that it is very unlikely that virions directly reach the lungs even if we inhale the air coughed by a patient with COVID-19. Based on the study, the process leading to …

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A cooperation agreement has been signed between the Centre for Energy Research and the Moroccan Centre National de l’Energie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucléaires

On 19 January 2021, the Centre for Energy Research and the Moroccan Centre National de l’Energie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucléaires (CNESTEN) signed a cooperation agreement. The event took place on-line due to the pandemic. The parties agreed to utilize the research reactor in Budapest, to cooperate on several research topics and to help make better use of the research reactor in Morocco. The cooperation also covers the industrial, agricultural, medical and other fields, …

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An international panel of experts has approved the next design phase of the first fusion power plant with a Hungarian nuclear expert member

An independent panel of experts reviewed the R&D and design work of EUROfusion, the European fusion research organization, at DEMO, the future demonstration fusion power plant, from 19 to 25 November 2020. The Hungarian member of the 5-member international body is Prof. Dr. Attila Aszódi, professor of the Institute of Nuclear Techniques of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The head of the board was the former director general of CERN and its members …

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The Zirconium cladding of new Paks Nuclear Power Plant fuel elements will be examined at the Centre for Energy Research

At the end of 2020, the operation with new lead test fuel assemblies optimized for the water-uranium ratio will be started at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant. The new fuel elements have a thinner cladding than the current one and the traditional hollow uranium dioxide pellets used so far will be replaced by solid pellets. In parallel with the delivery of the new lead test assemblies, a shipment of new cladding tubes arrived from the …

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First report on a brand new wide bandgap semiconductor, 2D indium nitride scientific paper of researchers from EK MFA (Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research) in journal Advanced Materials

The wide bandgap semiconductors with direct bandgap can emit light as most people learned when Nobel prize was awarded for the LEDs in 2014. The researchers already had worked for about two decades on those materials like GaN, AlN and InN. The latter one, (indium nitride) was a little bit peculiar among them with its forbidden bandgap of 0.7 eV, i.e. not very wide. However, the above three materials can be grown easily in a …

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One of the key technologies for the first power plant-sized fusion reactor to be tested at the Centre for Energy Research

Hungarian researchers and companies will develop a machine protection system for the international fusion project ITER. The Shattered Pellet Injector is designed to quickly quench the fusion reaction before it can damage the inner walls. The project was made possible through a 2.4 million euro tender won by the Fusion Plasma Physics Department of the Centre for Energy Research, Eötvös Loránd Research Network together with several Hungarian companies. The terrestrial realization of the energy production …

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Nuclear element analysis for the cost-optimization of npp decommissioning: assessment of raw materials to be used in nuclear-grade concretes

Concrete is a widely used building material that is a mixture of natural raw materials and – to a smaller extent – artificial additives. The raw materials and the mixing ratios determine the structural properties of the concrete, e.g. compressive strength, density, and aging properties. These properties are quantified via physical and chemical material testing methods. Scientists of the Nuclear Analytical and Radiography Department (NAL) at the Energy and Environmental Safety Institute of the Centre …

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The Óbuda University and the Centre for Energy Research have renewed their previous cooperation agreement

The Óbuda University and the Centre for Energy Research have renewed their previous cooperation agreement. The parties will make joint efforts in a number of areas in research and education, and help each other regarding graduate and doctoral training. After signing the cooperation agreement, the delegation of the Óbuda University visited the Budapest Research Reactor and the instruments operated by the Budapest Neutron Centre. Director General Dr. Ákos Horváth and Rector Dr. Levente Kovács agreed …

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