The National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) is a Polish public research institute supervised by the Ministry of Energy. NCBJ is located in Otwock and Warsaw. It conducts research and R&D in the areas of subatomic physics, radiation physics, plasma technologies, materials physics, particle acceleration devices and detectors, application of these devices in medicine and the economy, research and production of radiopharmaceuticals. NCBJ operates the only Polish research nuclear reactor. In 2017, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, making a comprehensive assessment of the quality of scientific and R&D activities.