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No An explosion such as the one that occurred in the n° 4 reactor of the Chernobyl power plant due to a runaway fission reaction cannot happen with the ILL’s reactor. The equivalent scenario for resea

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Yes The pool used to store spent fuel awaiting reprocessing at La Hague is situated, like the reactor pool itself, inside the reactor containment; its design constraints (resistance to various stresse

Yes and no Taking into account the nominal efficiency of the iodine traps, calculations made for the worst-case accident scenario (i.e. a core meltdown) show that the equivalent dose in the thyroid gl

In an accident involving a core meltdown due to the loss of the water inventory, the kinetics are relatively slow: the number of backup systems available ensures that water levels remain sufficient fo

Phone on the instrument: +33(0)4 76 20 7161 First Responsible WILDES Andrew Co-Responsible(s) MANGIN-THRO Lucile Technician(s) JIMENEZ Pierre Click on name to obtain contact information.

The MARMOT system is the latest innovation in neutron technologies. During the last reactor cycle of 2025, it was commissioned on ThALES with 1/4 of the detector channels fully equipped. Routine opera

Alexander Petukhov (1952-2023) by Eddy Lelièvre-Berna After a brilliant start of his career in Gatchina (Russia), Alexander Petukhov (Sasha) came for the first time to ILL in 1996 to successfully meas

Because the journal " Communications on Physics " disappeared for long, the papers describing neutron multilayers for the first time were neither available on the web nor referenced by the main abstra

► Instrument and research scientist responsible for the macromolecular crystallography beamlines LADI-III and DALI Main areas of expertise : Structural Biology, neutron macromolecular crystallography,