ESS European Spallation Source

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The European Spallation Source is a Partnership of 17 European Nations committed to the goal of collectively building and operating the world's leading facility for research using neutrons by the second quarter of the 21st Century

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The European Spallation Source (ESS) aims to be the brightest source of neutrons in the world for scientific research. By the end of this decade it will be generating long pulses of neutrons. These will be used in parallel experiments that will foster major advances from aging and health, materials technology for sustainable and renewable energy, to experiments in quantum physics, biomaterials and nano-science.

The ESS will be located in Lund, Sweden, co-hosted by both Sweden and Denmark and will be funded and operated by a partnership of 17 European countries. The ESS and our partners are currently engaged in a technical design review that will act as the blue-print for the construction of ESS to start in 2013 and to become operational in 2019.
 
The Current Status of the ESS – November 2011

Today the ESS organisation has almost 100 staff here in Lund. These comprise scientists, engineers and administrative staff. They are organised into four Directorates – Science, Accelerator and Target, Programme Office, and Administration.

Around Europe there are perhaps 100 other people directly engaged in collaborative work amongst our 17 partner countries. In addition we have many collaborators around the world who contribute to the project in different ways. At the end of September, we signed a collaboration agreement with ILL in Grenoble, and on 25th November we will sign a Memorandum of Understanding in Tokyo with the Japanese spallation source J-PARC. Global collaboration brings important benefits.
 

In October 2009 the ESS Steering Committee held its first meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. On that meeting the decision was made to enter the Pre Construction Phase and start the Design Update.
 

European Spallation Source is a joint European project, like that of many large-scale research facilities such as CERN in Geneva. The European countries that are interested in building and operating ESS are forming a coalition and entering into a formal agreement with one of the countries that has offered to be host. Consequently, ESS is not an EU project.
 
  • 1993 ESS Council is formed. The organisation consists of 18 major laboratories in 11 European countries.
  • 1997 ESS scientific form and technical data is presented, but Europe is not ready to make a decision. The concept is adopted by the USA, which begins to construct its own spallation facility – Spallation Neutron Source.
 
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