GELINA, a neutron time-of-flight facility for high-resolution neutron data measurements

Accurate neutron data are required for the assessment of safety aspects of nuclear power installations or for the design of new innovative concepts like nuclear waste transmutation or accelerator driven systems. For the measurement of such data in the resonance region an extremely good energy resolution is required, only achievable using a pulsed white-spectrum neutron source in combination with time-of-flight measurements. The Geel Electron LINear Accelerator Facility (GELINA) at the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) of the European Commission’s Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (JRC) is especially designed for such purposes. Within the framework of the EURATOM ‘Transnational Access to Large Infrastructure’ programme, JRC-IRMM is able to offer, via the NUDAME project, beam time to external users from EU member countries and associated states.