On this weeks meeting with the ESS Steering Committee, Czech Republic and the Netherlands was approved as new partners in ESS. Now 16 countries partners in building the worlds most powerful neutron source.

- The growing number of Partner Countries shows the scientific attractiveness of the ESS. It is particularly appropriate that the Czech Republic now joins the ESS, since the Czech Government, during its EU Presidency last spring, was a strong driving force to achieve a decision on the ESS siting, says Colin Carlile, CEO, ESS.

Both the Netherlands and the Czech Republic have an extensive expert base in neutron-based science, through the Reactor Institute at Delft Technical University and at the Rez Neutron Physics Laboratory, near Prague.