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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img width=129
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>MEMBERS OF THE ESS-BILBAO
GOVERNING BOARD VISIT THE AMERICAN NEUTRON SOURCE (SNS)</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%'>To continue making progress in their joint technology
collaboration project</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>A delegation
of representatives from the Governing Board of the ESS-Bilbao Consortium,
headed by the Secretary of State for Research, has visited the American
Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) sited at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Tennessee.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>During their visit,
representatives of the Spanish candidature laid the foundations to set up an
agreement comprising collaboration on technology matters between both
institutions.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The
opportunity to work together with the team responsible for the operation of the
most powerful spallation neutron source is a very positive step for the Bilbao
candidature.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>In declarations made
during her visit to the SNS, Cristina Oyón, ESS-Bilbao Interim Project Manager
stated, “the collaboration agreement we are going to sign with the
Americans on development of ion sources, accelerator and target technologies
strengthens our own project as our bid has the backing of the leading experts
in the world in the field of Spallation Neutron Sources.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The Spanish
team presented their American counterparts with the R&D programme designed
by ESS-B to create an international Knowledge Pole around the European
Spallation Source.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>During the
visit to the USA, the Spanish candidature team gained first-hand knowledge of
the different Centres that form part of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL), the site of the American Neutron Source (SNS).</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Spanish representatives held meetings
with their American counterparts in a number of different departments of the
ORNL and had the opportunity of seeing the SNS in operation and learning about
how it was built.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The European
Spallation Source is an ambitious project involving investments in
technological infrastructures amounting to approximately 1300 million euros.</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The ESS-Bilbao project expects to
generate 600 permanent jobs plus the 4000 people who may use the infrastructure
on an annual basis.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The
ESS is one of 35 major European technology infrastructures included in the VII
R&D Framework Programme of the European Union.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Some of the
major scientific applications of the Spallation Source include molecular
biology, material physics, medicine, automotive, aeronautics and electronics.</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The function of the Spallation
Sources is to produce neutrons that penetrate matter providing precise
information on its atomic structure.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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