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This first phase of Endurance will be followed by further instrument and infrastructure upgrades during phase 2 which
will provide the ILL among other things with a world-leading imaging instrument, further enhanced performance on the time-of-flight and three-axis spectrometers (including state- of-the-art multiplexing), a real boost to its diffuse polarized scattering instrument, a range of new detectors for diffraction and small-angle instruments, further advances on the fundamental and nuclear physics side as well as several additional CRG instruments.
Looking back from 2019, the Millennium and (current) Endurance programmes can be seen to be successful and cost- effective investments, maintaining ILL’s leading position among neutron scattering centres world-wide.
11.3 Complying with more demanding safety regulations
In the more than 50 years since the ILL was established, attitudes to nuclear research and nuclear power have changed significantly. For the ILL one manifestation of this evolution has been a continual tightening of the security regulations applied by the French authorities, particularly during the period after
the Fukushima disaster in 2011. Up until the time of writing
the ILL has responded to satisfy these demanding requirements without sacrificing the basic precepts by which the ILL has operated (relatively open academic campus atmosphere, access
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