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2018 additions
Chronology
1990
January
Austria becomes an associate scientific member
1991
April
Cracks were observed in an anti-turbulence grid. The reactor is stopped and its future is uncertain.
1991
November
SERC reduces UK funding to 25% from 1994
1991 to 1995
Reconstruction of reactor changing reactor vessel
1992
The synchrotron of the ESRF produces its first X-ray beams
1993
January
Extension of international agreement until 31/12/2003
1995
January
Reactor restart with the new vessel
1996
1 January
Jülich Research Centre replaces Karlsruhe as German parners
1996
November
Russia becomes an associate scientific member
1997
January
Italy becomes an associate scientific member
1998
The MENI consortium of Austria and the Czech Republic becomes an associate scientific member
2000
January
Launch of Millennium Programme
2002
December
Intergovernmental agreement extended to 31/12/2013
2003
SERC funding back to normal (27% 2000, 29% 2001, 32% 2002, 33% 2003)
2003
Launch of the Refit programme (2003-2007), 1st reconstruction/strengthening project
2006
Publication of the full scope of the Millennium Programme, “Future Perspectives and Opportunities for the Institute Laue-Langevin”
2006
Inauguration of the Carl-Ivar Brändén Building, hosts to the Partnership for Structural Biology, the UVHCI, and the Deuteration Lab
2010
Transfer from the CEA to the ILL of environmental monitoring responsibilities
2010
Launch of the EPN (European Photon and Neutron) science campus
2011
Post-Fukushima safety evaluations and start of reinforcement works
2011
New open access data policy. More secure data storage and retrieval, opening to a wider community, etc.
2012
Start of the Stress Test Response programme - REX Fukushima (2012- 2018)
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