Nuclear model developments in FLUKA for present and future applications

The FLUKA code [1-3] is used in research laboratories all around the world for challenging applications spanning a very wide range of energies, projectiles and targets. FLUKA is also extensively used for in hadrontherapy research studies and clinical planning systems. In this paper some of the recent developments in the FLUKA nuclear physics models of relevance for very different application fields including medical physics are presented. A few examples are shown demonstrating the effectiveness of the upgraded code.