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11.2 Ambitious improvement plans
Since its inception the ILL and its three Associate countries have cooperated in a policy of more or less continuous maintenance and enhancement of the reactor, instrument suite, and associated infrastructure. During the period from 2005 this policy was materialised in two major programmes, the Millennium and Endurance Programmes.
11.2.1 The Millennium Programme
In 2000 the ILL Millennium Programme was launched, with
the goal of maintaining the ILL in its leading position in world neutron science. The programme was set out in the Roadmap document for the decade 2000-2010, published in 2001. The first mission of the Millennium Programme was the completion of five instruments which should have been upgraded during the previous decade. In 2006, the full scope of the Millennium Programme
was laid out in another strategic document, Future Perspectives and Opportunities for the Institut Laue-Langevin131. This report documented a coherent plan for the next decades, with three major goals: the provision of new infrastructure for instrumentation (neutron sources and neutron transport, instruments and techniques), the foundation of partnerships on the common site shared by ILL, ESRF and EMBL, and the renewal of key reactor component (Fig. 11.1).
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