The Very Near Site at Chooz - a New Exerimental Hall to Study CENNS

Nuclear reactors are promising sources to run new-generation neutrino experiments exploring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS). In this talk, a new experimental site at the Chooz nuclear power plant in France, the Very Near Site (VNS), will be introduced along with first results from dedicated muon and neutron measurement campaigns. Based on these results, the feasibility of running a CENNS experiment at the VNS using the NU-CLEUS detector concept will then be discussed. Neutron background identification and rejection is a key point to successfully measure CENNS at reactors. Therefore, the talk will conclude with the status of the BASKET detector R&D program, which offers interesting possibilities to achieve neutron particle identification in a CENNS reactor experiment. Presented at the Magnificent CEvNS workshop (2018).