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2018 UPDATE: The ILL between 2005 and 2018
the strengthening and reconstruction work was financed with
a significant contribution to the “extra” expenses by the ILL Associates and a restructuring of the ILL’s budget over a 10- year period. It is worthy of note that the ILL was the first French nuclear operator to complete its STR programme.
11.4 Funding the present and the future
To further develop the quality of its instrument suite available to the scientific community the ILL has to fund both instruments and renewed infrastructures. Two important ways in which this has been achieved are described in this section.
11.4.1 Hosting instruments from other institutions
The concept of the Collaborating Research group (CRG) instrument was developed at the time of the “Deuxième Souffle” (Second Wind, 1979) when it became apparent that ILL did
not have the resources, particularly where scientific staff was concerned, to operate all existing instruments as new public instruments came on line. CRGs are composed of scientists from one or two research disciplines, and often multinational, carrying out a joint research programme centred on a specific instrument. These external groups finance and operate the instrument,
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