The new European Innovation Council, which emerged under the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 programme, opened its first Pathfinder Open call in 2021. A project led by researchers from IN2P3 (IJCLab) and the University of Nantes (SUBATECH) was accepted under this tool for funding disruptive technological research projects:

AMO-Tech (AntiMatter-OTech Novel Opaque Scintillator Technology for Nuclear Industry Imaging based on Anti-Matter Detection), teams from IJCLab (Anatael Cabrera, IN2P3) and SUBATECH (Frédéric Yermia, Université de Nantes). The European Consortium partners are CIEMAT (Spain), the University of Sussex (UK) and EDF as industrial partner. The project aims to monitor a reactor core and provide assistance in the dismantling of reactors. It is based on the R&D programme Liquido, an innovative deep-tech detector for fundamental physics of antineutrinos and charged particles. The detection principle will be published in the journal Nature Physics Communication. The programme will take place at the Chooz power plant in the Ardennes. It is scheduled to start in 2022.