The timescale for planning and development of new neutron scattering/muon spectroscopy facilities is at least a decade and the cost is considerable. New instruments take several years to build and are used for 10-15 years. Planning for these takes place while the surrounding „scientific landscape‟ is continuously changing, due to new techniques, new discoveries and new societal demands. It is therefore vital that development opportunities and plans and the associated scientific cases are continuously updated.

In FP7 NMI3 will continue the successful series of foresight studies started in NMI3/FP6.

Several of these have been organised on an international basis and agreement has been reached with Springer to publish a series of books mainly based on these meetings.

Springer serie Neutron Scattering Applications and Techniques.
Neutron Applications in Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences


Scheduled events:
• 2010 MRS Spring Meeting - Diagnostics and Characterization of Energy Materials with Synchrotron and Neutron Radiation
April 5-9 in San Francisco, California.


• Application of neutron scattering to Food Science
31 October — 3 November 2010 - Australia