Known as “Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics”, ELI-NP will serve as a pan European laboratory and will host a broad range of scientific disciplines, which will include: ground- breaking fundamental physics, new nuclear physics and astrophysics as well as material science and life sciences. Researchers will also be working on new ways to handle nuclear materials and radioactive waste.
The project involves 40 research and academic institutions from 13 member states and is part of a wider initiative with the Czech Republic and Hungary to make up a pioneering European research consortium, the press statement reads.
The European Commission on Tuesday approved a financial contribution of EUR180 million from structural funds for the construction of Magurele center.
The construction of ELI-NP research center at Magurele should be completed by the autumn of 2014, for the research center to become operational by 2017, after the installation of two high-power lasers and of the gamma radiation system, Zamfir also said.