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What’s inside a nuclear reactor?

Daniel Bennett from Focus magazine visited the world's leading neutron research centre, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) nuclear reactor in France.

By Daniel Bennett

08th August, 2011 at 00:00

At the reactor, neutrons are slowed down to an observable speed and stored in huge ‘bottles’ for numerous experiments.

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