The Institute of Resource Ecology (IRE) is one of the currently eight institutes of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). The research activities are fully integrated into the program “Nuclear Safety Research” of the Helmholtz Association and focused on the topics “Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal” and “Safety Research for Nuclear Reactors”. With the integration of the division of “Reactor Safety” from the former “Institute of Safety Research” nuclear research at HZDR is now mainly concentrated within this institute. In addition, various activities have been started investigating chemical and environmental aspects of processing and recycling of strategic metals, namely rare earth elements. Here, a knowledge transfer from the nuclear to the non-nuclear community, branching thermodynamics and spectroscopy, has been established. This also strengthens links to the recently established “Helmholtz-Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology”.

Der Forschungsbericht vermittelt einen Einblick in die vielfältige, leistungsfähige und interdisziplinäre Forschungslandschaft an der Technischen Universität Dresden.

Der Forschungsbericht vermittelt einen Einblick in die vielfältige, leistungsfähige und interdisziplinäre Forschungslandschaft an der Technischen Universität Dresden.

Der Forschungsbericht vermittelt einen Einblick in die vielfältige, leistungsfähige und interdisziplinäre Forschungslandschaft an der Technischen Universität Dresden.

Der Forschungsbericht vermittelt einen Einblick in die vielfältige, leistungsfähige und interdisziplinäre Forschungslandschaft an der Technischen Universität Dresden.

Der Forschungsbericht vermittelt einen Einblick in die vielfältige, leistungsfähige und interdisziplinäre Forschungslandschaft an der Technischen Universität Dresden.

Jahresbericht

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nicht vorhanden

The year 2013 was the third year of HZDR as a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF), and we have made progress of integrating ourselves into this research environment of national Research centers. In particular, we were preparing for the evaluation in the framework of the so-called program oriented funding (POF), which will hopefully provide us with a stable funding for the next five years (2015 – 2019). In particular, last fall we have submitted a large proposal in collaboration with several other research centers. The actual evaluation will take place this spring. Most of our activities are assigned to the program “From Matter to Materials and Life” (within the research area “Matter”). A large fraction of this program is related to the operation of large-scale research infrastructures (or user facilities), one of which is our Ion Beam Center (IBC). The second large part of our research is labelled “in-house research”, reflecting the work driven through our researchers without external users, but still mostly utilizing our large-scale facilities such as the IBC, and, to a lesser extent, the free-electron laser. Our in-house research is performed in three so-called research themes, as depicted in the schematic below. What is missing there for simplicity is a small part of our activities in the program “Nuclear Waste Management and Safety” (within the research area “Energy”).