REZS MEDIUM POWER RESEARCH REACTOR LVR-15 OPENED FOR EXTERNAL USERS

The Rei reactor LVR-15 operating at 10 MW can serve as a further neutr on source in Central Europe for some basic and applied research. Durin g the year 1997 a pattern of cycles of three weeks, each followed by o ne week for maintenance and instrumentation development, has been esta blished. Though this reactor is operating by the Nuclear Research Inst itute, pie. (NRI, pie.) on a commercial basis the noncommercial experi ments in nuclear and solid-state physics, materials research and neutr on activation analysis performed within the established Center for Fun damental and Applied Neutron Research (CFANR) are free. (C) 1998 Elsev ier Science B.V. All rights reserved.