The Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe is one of the largest non-commercial science and engineering research institutions in Germany. It works on research and development problems of public interest, exclusively for peaceful purposes, in the fields of technology and the environment. Its "Research for Environmentally Sustainable High Technologies" program concentrates on 11 programs in five main areas:

Environment: Atmosphere and Climate; Sustainability, Energy and Environmental Technologies

Health: Biomedical Research; Medical Engineering

Energy: Nuclear Fusion; Nuclear Safety Research

Key technologies: Microsystems Technology; Nanotechnology; GRID-Computing

Structure of Matter: Structure of Matter

Experimental and numerical investigation of safety related questions in Hydrogen systems.

Analysis of release, distribution and combustion scenarios.

Model development for and validation of specialized 3D computational fluid dynamics codes.

Acquisition of new large scale experimental facilities for Hydrogen safety studies.

Successful participation in blind benchmark simulations of Hydrogen distribution and combustion experiments.

Hydrogen related safety investigations for three operating German nuclear power plants.

Successful analysis of workshop for Hydrogen cars.