Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT)

The CIEMAT took over from the old Junta de Energía Nuclear (JEN), which since 1951 had led research in nuclear fission energy production and control in Spain.

The CIEMAT is structured in five technical departments covering a broad spectrum of energy and environmental technologies:

• Energy

• National Fusion Laboratory

• Environment

• Technology, and

• Basic Research.

At present, the main lines of action are the study, development, promotion and optimisation of various sources as: renewable energies, nuclear fusion, nuclear fission and fossil fuels; the study of their impact on the environment, development of new technologies; not forgetting areas of basic research such as high-energy physics and molecular and cellular biology.