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The Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (English: Commission for Atomic Energy) or CEA, is a French “public establishment related to industrial and commercial activities” whose mission is to develop all applications of nuclear power, both civilian and military. CEA is headed by the high-commissioner for atomic energy (currently Catherine Cesarsky), and by a board headed by the general administrator. The missions of the CEA are equivalent to those of the United States Department of Energy. Its yearly budget amounts to 3.3 billion euros.
CEA was created in 1945; since then, the successive high-commissioners have been Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Francis Perrin, Jacques Yvon, Jean Teillac, Raoul Dautry, René Pellat, Bernard Bigot and the incumbent.
It conducts fundamental and applied research into many areas, including the design of nuclear reactors, the manufacturing of integrated circuits, the use of radionucleides for curing illnesses, seismology and tsunami propagation, the safety of computerized systems, etc.
It has one of the top 10 supercomputers in the world, the Tera-10.
It is divided into 5 directions, or divisions:
- the division of nuclear energy;
- the division of technological research;
- the division of life sciences;
- the division of sciences of matter;
- the division of military applications, which builds the nuclear weapons of the French military and designs the power plants of the nuclear submarines of the French Navy
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Facilities
Civilian research centres
- CEA Saclay, Essonne (48°43′30″N 2°09′01″E / 48.725135°N 2.150346°E, headquarters since 2006) and the associated National Laboratory GANIL at Caen - Calvados
- CEA Fontenay-aux-Roses, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine
- CEA Grenoble, Grenoble, Isère
- CEA Cadarache, Cadarache, Bouches-du-Rhône
- CEA Valrhô, Marcoule and Pierrelatte, Gard
Research centres for military applications
- CEA DAM Île-de-France, Bruyères-le-Châtel, Essonne
- CEA Cesta, Gironde
- CEA Valduc, Côte-d'Or
- CEA Le Ripault, Indre-et-Loire
External links
- CEA official website (in English)
- CEA official website (main page, in French)
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