Future of ISIS
Our vision is that ISIS will lead the way in the innovative development and exploitation of neutron and muon sources, science, instrumentation and technology. To ensure that we are at the cutting edge of scientific discovery, we are constantly developing our facilities and technology, and we have big plans for the future.
The Endeavour programme
The Endeavour programme sets out our plans for four new instruments and five significant upgrades, to be delivered over ten years from 2023.
Endeavour, which was allocated funds through UKRI’s Infrastructure Fund, will deliver transformative impact in three societal challenge areas, aligned with key government priorities: materials for the future, clean growth and life sciences.
The Endeavour instruments will provide new capabilities to study and develop materials with real-world impact in areas such as energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, energy-generation components, drug delivery and vaccine production, and catalysts for the chemical industry.
ISIS-II: Designing the UK's next-generation neutron and muon source
Although ISIS will continue to operate for many years to come, plans for a new facility will be developed over the next decade to be ready for construction sometime after 2030.
The UK research community is at the forefront of neutron scattering, benefitting from ISIS as a national source alongside access to the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and, in the future, the European Spallation Source (ESS). ISIS-II will maintain and strengthen the UK’s neutron research capabilities, enabling continued pure and applied studies using neutrons and muons in a way that is complementary to the ESS.
A project has been established to consider the requirements for an ISIS-replacement facility, and to explore the technologies that might underpin this.
