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  Nuclear Research Institutes
Accelerator Driven Systems (more info) goto TOP
This is a website dedicated to all aspects of accelerator driven systems ranging from nuclear power generation to waste incineration. Publications on ADS and Transmutation.
language: English | French | German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Lead Laboratiry | Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH | ADS E-Print and Link Library | NUCLEAR WASTE INCINERATION - THE CASE FOR ADS
Forschungszentrum Jülich (more info) goto TOP
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (more info) goto TOP
language: English | French | German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Lead Laboratiry | Accelerator Driven Systems
Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (FZR) (more info) goto TOP
As a result of the German reunification, the FZR was founded in January 1992 on the site of a former nuclear research center of the GDR. Since then, it has developed scientific topics concerning essential problems of our time by focusing on basic and application oriented research: Environment, Safety, Materials, and Medicine.
  • Institute for Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research
  • Institute for Bioinorganics and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry
  • Institute for Nuclear and Hadron Physics
  • Institut for Safety Research
  • Institut for Radiochemistry
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: research focus
Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin (HMI) (more info) goto TOP
  • fundamental and applied research centre
  • concentrates on condensed matter research and solar energy
  • operates a nuclear research reactor and accelerators
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information | graphical data or images
type of site: non-commercial site
Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (more info) goto TOP
  • co-ordinating body of 16 German research laboratories:
    1. AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung
    2. DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
    3. DKFZ - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
    4. DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
    5. FZJ - Forschungszentrum Jülich
    6. FZK - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
    7. GBF - Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung
    8. GFZ - Geo Forschungs Zentrum Potsdam
    9. GKSS - Forschungszentrum Geesthacht
    10. GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik
    11. GSF - Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit
    12. GSI - Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung
    13. HMI - Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin
    14. IPP - Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
    15. MDC - Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin
    16. UFZ - Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme - IKE (Stuttgart University) (more info) goto TOP
language: German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Stuttgart University
Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU) (more info) goto TOP
The Institute for Transuranium Elements is part of the Joint Research Centre, the scientific wing of the European Commission. It is located in the German national research centre, situated 12 km north of the city of Karlsruhe.

The mission of ITU is to protect the European citizen against risks associated with the handling and storage of highly radioactive elements. ITU's prime objectives are to serve as a reference centre for basic actinide research, to contribute to an effective safety and safeguards system for the nuclear fuel cycle, and to study technological and medical applications of transuranium elements.

  • basic actinide research
  • nuclear fuel cycle
  • medical nuclear applications
language: English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open only to certain groups
type of data: textual information | online journals, articles, reports | bibliographic data
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Joint Research Centre | German National Research Centre (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) | ADS E-Print and Link Library
Karlsruhe Lead Laboratiry (KALLA) (more info) goto TOP
Presently, the Technical Working Group chaired by Carlo Rubbia and jointly set up by several European governments, is harmonizing the ongoing European activities on ADS. Within the 5th European Framework Programme the European Union is funding 10 projects on partitioning and transmutation. The objectives of these projects are to cover basic aspects and data needed for assessing the impact of ADS technology on transmutation and for designing technical options for a reference as-soon-as-possible demonstration facility (ASAP-DEMO).
language: English | French | German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH | Accelerator Driven Systems | 5th European Framework Programme
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Heidelberg, Germany) (more info) goto TOP
  • heavy ion and particle physics, theoretical many-particle physics and field theory, astrophysics and atmospheric physics
  • heavy ion accelerator facility, heavy ion test storage ring, proton microprobe
language: English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
Society for Reactor Safety (GRS) (more info) goto TOP
  • Germany's central scientific-technical expert organisation for all issues related to nuclear safety and nuclear waste management
language: German | English
originator: industry or service provider
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information | online journals, articles, reports
type of site: non-commercial site
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  High Energy Research Institutes
Accelerator Laboratory LMU and TU Munich (more info) goto TOP
The Accelerator Laboratory is a common institution of both Munich universities, the LMU as well as the TU.
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University) | TU (Technical University Munich)
Ångströmquelle Karlsruhe (ANKA) (more info) goto TOP
  • Synchotron Radiation Facilities
language: English | German | French
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: english pages
Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung m.b.H. (BESSY) (more info) goto TOP
  • Synchotron Radiation Facilities: BESSY, BESSY-II
language: English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: News and Events
Deutsches Elektron Synchotron (DESY) (more info) goto TOP
  • DORIS-III, PETRA-II
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: free online access | open to the general public
type of data: textual information | online journals, articles, reports
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: HASYLAB | Preprints at DESY
Dortmunder Elektronen Testspeicherring Anlage (DELTA) (more info) goto TOP
  • Synchotron Radiation Facility
language: English | German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
Electron Stretcher Accelerator (ELSA) (more info) goto TOP
  • Synchotron Radiation Facilities
language: English | German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Bonn University
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) (more info) goto TOP
  • UNILAC (Universal-Linear- Accelerator), Schwer-Ionen-Synchrotron (SIS), Experimentier-Speicher- Ring (ESR)
  • main fields of work are experiments in nuclear and atomic physics, fundamental research
  • also: plasma physics, materials research, biophysics, radiotherapy, development of accelerators
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Isotope Separator On-line (ISOL)
Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (Universität Karlsruhe) (more info) goto TOP
  • high energy physics
language: German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
Institut für Kernphysik (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) (more info) goto TOP
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open only to certain groups
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | English Version
Isotope Separator On-line at GSI (ISOL) (more info) goto TOP
The Isotope Separator On-Line is an instrument to prepare specific reaction products out of the bulk of products formed in fusion, fission, or multi-nucleon transfer reactions.
language: English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information | graphical data or images
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI)
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  Nuclear Fusion and Plasma Physics
European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) (more info) goto TOP
The EFDA Workplan includes project-oriented activities aiming at the goal of demonstrating, in a Next Step, the feasibility of a reactor relevant burning plasma and addressing several advanced technologies (e.g. superconductivity, high-heat flux components, remote handling, fuel handling, waste treatment) which are also largely applicable to the future Demonstration Reactor (DEMO).
language: English
originator: international organisation | university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
KFA Juelich (Germany) (more info) goto TOP
  • TEXTOR Tokamak
language: German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public | free online access
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (Garching, Germany) (more info) goto TOP
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) is concerned with investigating the physical principles underlying a nuclear fusion power plant, which - like the sun - will gain energy from the fusion of light atomic nuclei.
  • ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak
  • W7-AS Stellarator
language: German | English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public | free online access
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: WENDELSTEIN 7-AS | Teilinstitut Greifswald (W7-X) | WENDELSTEIN 7-X | Tokamak ASDEX Upgrade
Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) (more info) goto TOP
The Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ) was founded on January 1st 1981. It grew out of the Projektgruppe für Laserforschung (Project Group for Laser Research), which had started work on January 1st 1976 following an agreement between the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
language: English | German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Stellarator WENDELSTEIN 7-X (Greifswald branch) (more info) goto TOP
language: German
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik