Unfortunately we have to inform you that ILL will not be able to operate the second cycle in 2017, originally planned to start on October 23. The reason for this is the delay in completing the installation of a new, emergency cooling circuit, including the necessary authorisation from the nuclear safety authorities. This circuit is the last of a number of safety modifications to the ILL reactor following Fukushima.
Due to the resulting backlog of experiments, the first two cycles in 2018 will be used to perform experiments already accepted in April 2017.
Users with accepted experiments will be contacted by the User Office to check that they still wish to perform their experiments given the delay.
In addition, we have therefore decided to cancel the current proposal round. Proposals for experiments in the second half of 2018 should be submitted in the spring proposal round. The small number of users having already submitted proposals will be asked if they wish their proposals to be carried forward to the next round.
For urgent beam time requirements - for example 'hot science' or experiments to complete work relating to research or thesis contracts - we strongly encourage you to apply for Director's Discretionary Time (DDT, see https://www.ill.eu/users/applying-for-beamtime/director-discretionarys-time-ddt/). We will do our best to schedule accepted DDT requests as early as possible in 2018.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused for your research programmes and look forward to resuming normal operation early in 2018.
Do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
With best regards,
The ILL User Office
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Giovanna CICOGNANI
Communication and Scientific Coordination
ILL4/Room 113 - 1st floor
Institut Laue-Langevin
CS 20156 - 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9 - France
Phone: +33 (0)4 76 20 71 79
Email: cicognani@ill.eu
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