Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA)
The CEA is the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'Energie atomique), a public body established in October 1945. A leader in research, development and innovation, the CEA mission statement has two main objectives: to become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future. The CEA is active in three main fields: energy, information and health technologies, and defense and national security. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research. In 2007, the total CEA workforce consisted of about 15,000 employees, 1,000 PhD students and 300 post-docs.
The CEA, a key player in technological research, has developed extensive expertise in a number of fields – energy, information and health technologies and nanotechnologies, in particular – which are now central to the subjects studied within the European Research Area. The CEA implements an extremely proactive policy on working with its European partners, which is manifested in its highly-committed involvement in a series of research and development framework programs (FP), and, more particularly, in FP6 and FP7, currently in progress. It is also involved in Eureka projects and with a number of European establishments, such as the CERN, the Laue Langevin Institute and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). The CEA is currently involved, within the framework of FP6, in more than 180 projects and acts as coordinator for 34 of these. The CEA has also been heavily involved in the 3 “new instruments” for FP6 - strategic integration and structuring tools developed by European R&D for a given field.
Among the various research units of CEA that will be involved in PERFORM 60, one can mention especially : the “Service de Recherche en Métallurgie Appliquée (SRMA)” will contribute on the microstructural and mechanical aspects of materials involved in different work-packages dealing with flow and fracture behaviour prediction; the “Service d’Etude des Matériaux Irradiés (SEMI)” will carry out the mechanical and corrosion tests planned on irradiated specimens; the “Service de Recherche en Métallurgie Physique (SRMP)” will contribute to the physics modelling of irradiation damage and dislocation behaviour; the “Service de Corrosion et du Comportement des Matériaux dans leur Environnement (SCCME)” will contribute to the corrosion studies.
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