The areas of competence of CTN are associated to the human resources and equipment that support the R&D activities. At the same time and in parallel, undertakes activities to respond in a technically and scientific sound way to legal obligations or other situations, posed by the civil society. Main areas of work are listed below:

Physics and accelerators

• Production and modification of advanced materials by ion implantation
• Materials characterization with ion and neutron beams and x-ray diffraction
• Radiation technologies: processes and products
• Nuclear instrumentation and methods, modelling and simulation
• Cultural heritage
• Biomedical studies

Chemical and radiopharmaceutical sciences

• Cultural heritage and sciences
• Environment and analytical Chemistry
• Inorganic and organometallic chemistry
• Organic, inorganic, organometallic and radiopharmaceutical chemistry
• Solid state chemistry

Reactors and nuclear safety

• Operation and Exploitation of the Reactor, Dosimetry and Reactor Calculations
• Applied dynamic
• Radiation effects in electronics systems
• Neutron activation analysis (NAN) and neutron scattering
• Use of nuclear reactors for materials science studies
• Development of novel detectors

Radiological protection and safety

• Deactivated uranium mines and public health
• Ionising radiation national standards
• Evaluation of biological doses and effects and environmental radiological vigilance
• Radioactive waste and radioactive matter transport
• Radiation dosimetry

These activities are carried out by the research groups.