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Reinventing neutron science in Europe

Nature Materials volume 13, pages 767–768 (2014)Cite this article

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Neutron science has been a remarkable success story for European research. For this to continue, scientists need to be prepared to forge new networks and technologies.

Recently, after a difficult meeting and over a bottle of red wine, a colleague sighed and said (paraphrasing a little), “...in my time we turned the reactor on in the morning and off in the evening. Experiments took as long as needed. We had time to think. Now everything has to be done fast, fast, fast!” What my friend was reminiscing about is what many saw as the golden age of neutron science for studying novel states of matter or fundamental physics. This was a time when many countries were furnished with small- to medium-flux nuclear reactors bred out of the promises of the nuclear age, and scientists operated in a relaxed environment with the resources to experiment and innovate.

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  1. Dimitri N. Argyriou is the Director for Science at the European Spallation Source, Tunav. 24, Lund, Box 176 S-221 00, Sweden,

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Argyriou, D. Reinventing neutron science in Europe. Nature Mater 13, 767–768 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4040

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