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Chapter 6: The start of research activities and the arrival of the British
ready, to be used. The slowness of talks was a consequence of British procrastination which hovered between two positions: fight for a purely British high flux reactor, or join the ILL. The 1962 British project was improved and the use of guides was envisaged. When I speak of the British I think of the Science Research Council (SRC) who had been our negotiating partner during these years of discussions. The British Associate, SRC (or under its newer name, Science and Engineering Research Council, SERC), the German Associate (GfK, then FZ-Jülich) and the French Associates are now partners in the private company which manages the ILL.
Openings were initiated while Maier-Leibnitz was still director, and continued when Mössbauer suceeded him. The first practical action was the visit of a small delegation from the SRC to the ILL on 6 and 7 March 1970. The group comprised Bill Mitchell (Fig. 6.2), who was the chairman of the Neutron Beam Research
Fig. 6.2: Bill Mitchell (right) in conversation with Tasso Springer
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