Over the last years Victor was weekly involved in the OYSTER project at the Technical University of Delft. An international team worked together to develop a cold neutron source, and now it is in function! With the insertion of an extremely cold liquid hydrogen cold source in a beam tube close to the reactor core, the TU Delft is now one of the few research-reactors in Europe with such a source. The cooled neutrons have more interaction with the objects under investigation than non-cooled neutrons. Hence, the quality and speed of measurements can be improved by 100 fold. Therefore, the project under the acronym OYSTER, which stands for Optimized Yield – for Science, Technology and Education – of Radiation, has now been successfully concluded.
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