In a world of ever larger international facilities, a medium-sized neutron facility can have an impact on many research fields and applications. Neutrons are nowadays involved in many industrial applications and fields of research. They are indeed very particular; their lack of charge makes them very penetrating radiation for which the electron cloud of the atoms is transparent, thus interacting only with the nucleus. Naturally unstable, they are created by, and also drive, nuclear reactions. Neutrons appear as a result of both fission and fusion reactions, being thus essential in the electricity production in current and future nuclear reactors. This is indeed a trending topic, given the recent advances in Small Modular Reactors (SMR) and the excellent prospects for fusion, with a series of recent records broken in plasma confinement. Besides energy production, the list of research fields and applications requiring neutrons is very extensive and varied. Their absorption by nuclei inside the stars gives birth to the elements of our Universe heavier than iron, and when they induce fission in nuclear reactors they produce …