The Reactor Institute Delft , or RID, is a nuclear research institute at Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology , also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands...

 in Delft

Delft

Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland , the Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam and The Hague....

, the Netherlands.

The institute features the Hoger Onderwijs Reactor (HOR, , a 2 MW_t pool-type research reactor

Research reactor

Research reactors are nuclear reactors that serve primarily as a neutron source. They are also called non-power reactors, in contrast to power reactors that are used for electricity production, heat generation, or maritime propulsion.-Purpose:...

. Neutron research instruments are developed using several neutron beam lines leading from the core. One of the most intense positron beam lines in the world is powered by gamma-pair production

Pair production

Pair production refers to the creation of an elementary particle and its antiparticle, usually from a photon . For example an electron and its antiparticle, the positron, may be created...

near the reactor core.

Organization

The institute is part of the Faculty of Applied Sciences since its name change to Reactor Institute, but was previously not part of a faculty and known as the Interfacultair Reactor Institute (IRI)