Promoting excellence in nuclear analyses
TECFIR is a research group of the Spanish public university UNED. Its name stands for the Spanish title "Tecnolog铆as de Fisi贸n, Fusi贸n y Fuentes de Irradiaci贸n". We are an international research team dedicated to the development of computational tools and its application to solve problems in the design of facilities in the presence of radiation fields.
Areas of interest
Nuclear fusion reactors
TECFIR is a leading team worldwide in the provision of nuclear analysis for the most relevant nuclear fusion reactors and facilities. We collaborate with ITER project, and the European DEMO design for magnetic fusion , and with Xcimer Energy for inertial fusion reactors.
Particle accelerators
TECFIR has collaborated in the design of high intensity accelerators like LIPAc in Japan or the coming IFMIF-DONES facility in Spain, both key facilities in the fusion roadmap. Our capabilities span to other applications like protontherapy facilities.
Computational capabilities
TECFIR / UNED makes use of the most advanced methodologies for the determination of radiation fields, some of them produces by us. About 10 million of cpu.hr of HPC are spent every year.
Our activities
Research activities
- TECFIR is integrated in UNED and participates of Insituto de Fusi贸n Nuclear at UPM.
- TECFIR conducts research under an international Quality Management System ISO 9001. See it here.
- Our computational tools, like ACAB, MCUNED-Plus, R2SUNED, D1SUNED and GEOUNED are best considered worlwide in their ambits.
- TECFIR receives mixed funding from Spanish public institutions and by developing tailored research projects with clients
- TECFIR signed in 2016 a Memorandum of Understanding with ITER Organization to boost common research lines and regularly exchange researchers. See it here.
- TECFIR operates its own supercomputer for nuclear analysis activies.
Teaching activities
TECFIR pays significant efforts to teaching the next generation of nuclear analysts. Main highlights are:
- TECFIR is member of Fusenet, the European Fusion Network Association to coordinate with European universities the teaching of master and PhD. programs covering aspects of the nuclear fusion
- TECFIR group, through UNED, is participant of the ENEN Association for nuclear engineering education at all teaching levels.
- TECFIR teaches diverse nuclear engineering subjects in the "Master en Investigaci贸n en Tecnolog铆as Industriales" and others, at UNED
- TECFIR accumulates over 30 master projects, and 10 PhD. in the last 5 years, all of them related to radiation transport and prediction of the radioactive inventory of materials under irradiation
Multimedia
You can learn more about us in the following links (most of them in Spanish):