Carlo Rubbia, former Director General of CERN, started in 1993 with the EET group a new activity consisting of developing innovative ideas in the domain of energy production and applications. He proposed, in particular, the Energy Amplifier, to extract nucleus energy with the help of accelerator induced nuclear cascades.

The EET section has a very strong computational physics background mainly in model development for particle physics and accelerator driven systems (ADS). The main tasks of the section are summarized below:

• Coordination of the CERN FLUKA simulation team, which is responsible for the accelerator studies for the LHC beam cleaning elements ie. Collimation project, CNGS and future projects.
• Support of the public FLUKA release.
• Development of new physics models necessary for the study of present and future projects.
• Coordination and engineering studies for the Transfer Line Collimation TCDI, TPSG4 and TPSG6
• EURISOL-DS: Coordination of the simulation and engineering studies of the Multi-MegaWatt target (Task #2)
• Technically responsible for the n_TOF facility including the n_TOF beam line and the experimental area and should coordinate CERN's obligations as host laboratory.
• In collaboration with JINR (Dubna) and IPPE (Obninsk), responsible for the Fission cross section measurements with the FIC detector at the n_TOF facility.