high-flux reactor

In the 1960s, high-flux reactors were built that were optimized for beam-tube experiments.

There are proposals of very compact 10-kW high-flux reactors using as little as 20 grams of Am.

The development culminated in the high-flux reactor of the Institut Laue-Langevin (in operation since 1972) that achieved the highest neutron flux to this date.

These studies are performed in international collaborations at high-flux reactors (Institut Laue-Langevin, France) or accelerator facilities as the CERN in Switzerland or the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.