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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more mature, and offers hope that fusion plasmas can be stabilised for greater amounts of time in machines such as ITER.
The physical processes behind cloud formation and snow precipitation above the Antarctic ice cap remain poorly understood. Co-directed by the CNRS, the CEA, the EPFL, and l’École Polytechnique, the AWACA project will deploy innovative equipment with support from the French Polar Institute, in order to better characterize the atmospheric water cycle above Antarctica.
Following a call for tenders launched in January 2024, EuroHPC and EuroQCS-France have announced the acquisition of Europe's most powerful universal photonic quantum computer from a consortium formed by Quandela (France) and attocube systems AG (Germany). The system, owned by EuroHPC and co-acquired by GENCI, will be hosted and operated by CEA at TGCC. It will be coupled to the Joliot-Curie supercomputer, and will be made available to scientific communities in 2025 as part of open research.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a hosting agreement with GENCI for its next exascale supercomputer, Alice Recoque, which will be operated by CEA. It will pave the way for new scientific discoveries and post-exascale HPC and AI services.
The CEA is revealing a series of in vivo human brain images acquired with the Iseult MRI machine and its unmatched 11.7 teslas magnetic field strength. This success is the fruit of more than 20 years of R&D as part of the Iseult project, with one pillar goal being to design and build the world’s most powerful MRI machine. Its ambition is to study healthy and diseased human brains with an unprecedented resolution, allowing us to discover new details relating to the brain’s anatomy, connections, and activity.
Scientists at IRIG have observed, to a resolution of 0.5 nanometres, the interactions between the influenza virus genome and its associated proteins. This opens the way to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the replication of this virus with high pandemic potential.
The CEA and Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) are continuing their successful collaboration in the research area of artificial intelligence, data analytics and simulation.
Researchers at Irig have developed an original synthesis that enables them to produce indium phosphide quantum dots that are larger than ever before. These components, which emit up to the near infrared, are of interest both for photovoltaics and in vivo imaging.
The CEA coordinates the European project COUNTERACT which aims to reinforce the European Union’s preparedness for nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical (NRBC) threats.
The CEA/RIKEN bi-annual workshop on High Performance Computing (HPC), Quantum Computing (QC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) gathered 35 researchers online and in Kobe. CEA and RIKEN signed an agreement on January 2022 to collaborate in the field of AI, big data, QC and HPC, renewing for five more years a collaboration running since 2017.
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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.