SPIRAL 2 Commissioning Status and Future Prospects

The first phase of the SPIRAL 2 project dealing with the high-power superconducting linac and the two experimental areas called Neutron for Science (NfS) and Super Separator Spectrometer (S3) is well advanced. The project is now in a phase during which the linac components are successively installed and commissioned (the first beam was produced in December 2014). After having briefly recalled the project scope and parameters, the way the accelerator installation and commissioning are done is explained. The next steps which are the DESIR low-energy experimental area and the q/A = 1/7 heavy ion second injector are also presented.