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ILL currently employs about 500 people.

The experiments performed at the ILL are chosen following a highly competitive selection process involving international experts. The ILL receives almost 1500 requests for access to neutron beamtime every ... every year. We are only able to accept about half of these. About 1500 researchers travel to the ILL every year from all over the world ...

The ILL is a service facility. Its purpose is to provide the international scientific community with the brightest beams of neutrons possible. Most of its neutron beams are used to probe materials. 

ideal conditions for fruitful scientific collaboration. Despite its strong international ties, the ILL owes a great deal to its neighbouring institutions. For a broader view, have a look at the website

they decay. This is the case of uranium, used in the ILL reactor. In commercial power plants the decay process is exploited to produce energy. At the ILL the reactor is used to extract neutrons from uranium ... uranium nuclei for scientific exploitation. This explains the small size and overall design of the ILL reactor.

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

The ILL was the historical nucleus of what has today become the European Photon and Neutron Science Campus. The epn science campus is now also home to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility&