FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS  

• Nuclear and particle physics
• Advanced electronics for radiation detection and radiation effects mitigation
• Innovative data analysis methodologies
• Simulation and modeling

SPACE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY          

• Electronics and sensors vulnerability
• Very low power and mass sensors
• Miniaturization design techniques
• Onboard control and data processing units
• Robust and hardened architectures

FUSION DIAGNOSTICS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Burning plasma diagnostics
• Radiation hardened detectors and electronics
• Experimental techniques for high-T plasmas
• High-availability electronics for DAQ and control

RESEARCH REACTORS AND PARTICLE ACCELERATORS    

• Calibration and tests of mock-up sensors under laboratory conditions (thermal-hydraulic, mechanical, thermal studies)
• Radiation detection
• In-pile measurements of physical parameter including temperature, dimensions, gas release
• Accelerator beam diagnostics and characterization
• Material testing reactors safety experiments
• Accelerator beam position monitors
• Beam loss/beam profile measurement
• Optical diagnostics
• Collision rate measurement

NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE       

• Nuclear power plants (GEN II, GEN III, GEN III+)
• GEN IV reactors (SFR, LFR, VHTR, GFR,…)

ENVIRONMENTAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES       

• Advancements in mass spectrometry measurements
• Application of radioactive tracers
• Radiography, imagery, tomography
• Methods in extreme conditions
• Medical Imaging systems (PET, SPECT, CT, MRI…)

NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS, HOMELAND SECURITY And CBRN           

• Illicit trafficking
• First responder prompt nuclear measurements intervention
• Customs border inspections and access controls of radiological elements in transit
• Radiological threats detection and identification
• High efficiency neutron measurements
• Active and Passive interrogation techniques
• (X-rays, gammas and neutrons)

DECOMMISSIONING, DISMANTLING AND REMOTE HANDLING             

• Materials and radioactive wastes management
• Techniques and process improvements, radiological characterization, waste treatment, decontamination
• Remote handling

SEVERE ACCIDENT MONITORING

• High temperature and pressure measurements
• Radiation measurement in harsh media
• Electronics hardening
• Wireless and remote robotic measurements
• Simulation and modeling

CURRENT TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF RADIATION DETECTORS                 

• Current trends in scintillator detectors and materials
• State-of-the-art radiation detectors for medical imaging
• Engineering of scintillation materials and radiation technologies
• Progress in the development of semiconductor radiation detectors

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND OUTREACH           

• Experimental sciences
• Basics in instrumentation and measurement sciences and technologies
• Measurement methods and their applications
• PhD. and summer schools, refresh courses
• Communicating nuclear to the public