2024 Activity Report

2024 Activity Report • June 5, 2025

Proof-of-value: generalizing the evaluation of several quantum processors (QPUs)

The most advanced quantum computers have already gone beyond the proof-of-concept stage—but that doesn’t mean they are ready for practical use cases. We have entered the performance evaluation era, where the goal is to measure the gap between the current state-of-the-art and quantum utility (QU).

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2024 Activity Report • June 5, 2025

Monocrystalline diamond: a detector for nuclear fuel recycling

To enhance alpha radioactivity measurement—critical for separating reusable materials from waste—CEAList has developed a monocrystalline diamond detector resistant to extreme operating conditions.

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2024 Activity Report • June 5, 2025

Model-driven engineering for nuclear fusion reactor maintenance

The CEA’s IRFM institute is already working on the maintenance requirements for the ITER installation. IRFM called on CEA-List’s expertise in model-driven engineering to model maintenance processes in this complex environment.

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2024 Activity Report • June 5, 2025

J3DAI, an advanced three-layer integration architecture for a CMOS image sensor

Smart imagers are revolutionizing the acquisition and analysis of visual data with real-time image capture and processing capabilities

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2024 Activity Report • June 5, 2025

Technological innovations for nuclear decommissioning

CEA-List is driving progress in digital instrumentation for nuclear dismantling and decommissioning (D&D) through three PhD contracts funded under the FOCUSDEM program and in situ demonstrations of radiological measurement technologies as part of the European CLEANDEM project.

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2024 Activity Report • June 5, 2025

Successful open-source release of L1 data cache (HPDcache)

HPC and AI applications are increasingly data intensive, their memory access patterns are irregular, making the cache memory less efficient. HPDcache, which allows multiple memory requests to be executed simultaneously, solves this problem.

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2024 Activity Report • June 5, 2025

Dexterous bimanual manipulation

CEA-List developed a dexterous bimanual manipulation system : its multiple reconfigurable fingers are equipped with multimode perception capabilities. The system can carry out 80 different grips, using finely controlled force, and detect slippage.

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2024 Activity Report • June 4, 2025

Inorganic scintillator aerogels for real-time discrimination of radioactive gas mixtures

A real-time radioactive gas measurement device that uses a scintillating aerogel was developed and tested by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from CEA, ENS Lyon, and UCBL.

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