It is one of the ILL's missions to provide the scientific community with innovative instrumentation for neutron science. The ILL is therefore continuously monitoring and developing neutron transport and neutron detection techniques, whilst upgrading its own facilities in the process.
Its most recent modernisation campaign involved more than €50m in investment and has resulted in over a 25-fold increase in performance. The neutron source itself is of such ingenious design that it seems difficult to improve on it further.