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Since the shutdown of the ORPHEE reactor in 2019, France no longer has a national neutron facility to study the internal structure of materials. Currently, French scientists can still rely on the European source at the ILL in Grenoble, as well as on several facilities in Europe (ISIS, PSI…) or in the USA (SNS).
With the arrival of the new ESS source (SE), the shutdown of the ILL (in operation since 1971) has been announced, and the French community, yet one of the largest in Europe, will no longer have a facility on its own soil. The ICONE facility, based on a 25 MeV proton accelerator (HiCANS), should produce neutrons for 12 instruments around two targets and enable more than 300 experiments per year, complementary to those carried out at ESS (around 150 experiments per year for France at very high flux).
The APD phase has just been completed and has defined the expected performance, schedule, and cost. The first neutrons for users are expected in 2034.
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