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DECEMBER
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18,
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1961
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EURATOM TO PURC}I,ASE
DUTCH ACCETEMTOR
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
December 18
(Euratoro) has concluded
--
The Buropean Atonic Energy Comunity
with the Dutch
company High Voltage Engineer-
ing a contract, for the supply of a positive-ion Van de Graaf accel.erator
$rith a
maximum po$rer
of
one
millicn e.v.
Intended for Euratomrs Joint Research center at Ispra, this
apparatus
assembly
will serve as a source of neutron pulsations for the critical
ECO to be constructed under the 0rgel project (study of a
neutral uranium fueled, heavy-water-moderated and organic liquid-cooled
reactor string).
This apparatus is rhe second of lts lilnd to be ordered by che
Courisslon from High Voltage Engineering. In 1960, this firm
ruas
conrmissioned Eo supply the Central Nuclear Measurements Bureau
set
uP
by EuraEom at Geel (gelgtum) with a positive-ion, three miliion e.v.
Van de Graaf accelerator
for
neuEron
experiments.
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