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The increase in expenses resulting from monetary inflation made it necessary to add an amendment to this agreement. This amendment signed on 6 July 1971, shortly before the start of the reactor, states that “a sum of 335 million francs is available for construction of the reactor, the instruments and the operating costs of the institute during the study and building phase”. This amendment takes into account Maier-Leibnitz’s wishes that the instruments should be constructed at the same time as the reactor. It also refers to “an annual subsidy to cover operating costs capped at 53 million French francs for the first year of normal
Fig. 4.4: Taken during one of the first meetings of the Steering committee shows W. Hasenclever (standing) with Néel and Balligand in front of him.
operations which will be in 1972 at the earliest”. I’ll return later to the various modifications which were made to the agreement during the life of the ILL.
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