The CEA Paris-Saclay center is one of nine centers belonging to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Following a reorganization in 2017, the center consists of multiple sites, including the CEA Saclay site (formerly a "center"), the Fontenay-aux-Roses site and the sites of Paris, Évry, Orsay and Caen.[1]
Historically, as the main Saclay site was the heart of French nuclear research it was called Saclay Nuclear Research Center prior to the shift towards other fields of research and innovation besides nuclear.[2][3]
The complex employs more than 7,500 scientists.[7] Although CEA Saclay was initially focused on nuclear research, multiple domains of research are carried out there since a few decades back. These include:[9]
The Osiris and Isis reactors (operated between 1965–2019[10]) inspired the design of Iraq's Osirak[fr] facility.[11][12] Multiple bacterial species were discovered to thrive in those reactor cores during operation, and may have fed off hydrogen from radiolysis.[13]
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