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that Maier-Leibnitz visited and met Louis Néel for the first time and spoke of his interest in high flux reactors. It seems to me that the essential tactic was that Horowitz asked Dautray to undertake the reactor study, passing
the discussions from the stage of
speculation through to a concrete
project.
The neutron researchers and
physicists in Grenoble expressed
their own interest in such a
project and for several reasons.
The first being that the reactor
should of necessity include a high
performance cold source and that
the know-how existed in Grenoble
thanks to Louis Weil and Albert
Lacaze, who had worked with us to design and build the cold source at Saclay. The second was that there was experience in Grenoble on the construction of a swimming pool reactor, which was an alternative to the Brookhaven model. Bertaut was, of course, interested by easy access to an intense neutron source for his diffraction studies. The last reason was a clearly formulated wish by the CENG, especially that of director Louis Néel, that such a reactor should be sited at Grenoble. This led to writing up the project entitled: “A high flux reactor and output beam tubes” which was presented at the 1964 3rd Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy25. The main author was Paul Ageron (Fig. 1.9) with help from Deniélou, Dautray, Fornier,
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Fig. 1.9: Paul AGERON