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Neutrons for Science
The specific advantages expected from the reactor of the ILL were:
1. It was a reactor designed to provide neutron beams as a prime function.
2. With a diameter of 60 m the scientists would have more space for their instruments. The level of the instruments is the same as the surrounding ground which allows
the neutron beams to pass outside the building, and by employing neutron guides allow instruments to be sited at a large distance from the core of the reactor hence in a region where the background is minimal.
3. Quoting Maier-Leibnitz: “The reactor, with its protective shield, the neutron guides, the cold source, the hot source have all been developed in collaboration with the experimenters, the future users of the reactor. We hope to install an optimum number of instruments (perhaps 40) around the reactor”.
Maier-Leibnitz then described in detail the organisation of the scientific work which he considered necessary to make best use of these inherent advantages of the design of the Grenoble reactor:
1. about 200 scientists comprising 50-70% visitors
2. an annual budget, excluding reactor, of FF 25M
3. a drawing office and workshop, working in conjunction
with the CENG and the CNRS laboratories in Grenoble 4. hosting facilities to ensure all necessary aid for visitors 5. a group of theorists
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