European Spallation Source (ESS)

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The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a multi-disciplinary research centre based on the world’s most powerful neutron source. This new facility will be around 30 times brighter than today’s leading facilities, enabling new opportunities for researchers in the fields of life sciences, energy, environmental technology, cultural heritage and fundamental physics.

The European Spallation Source is one of the largest science and technology infrastructure projects being built today. The facility design and construction includes a linear proton accelerator, a heavy-metal target station, a large array of state-of-the-art neutron instruments, a suite of laboratories, and a supercomputing data management and software development center. In the context of its history and future as a scientific organisation, it is however more than an advanced research tool. It is a brand new organisation, being built from the ground up.

Location: Lund, Sweden

Website: www.europeanspallationsource.se/

Video Produced by Søren Bruun (The Compound) and Kenneth Sorento (Film & Photography), for the Niels Bohr Institutet, with support of Vækstforum Hovedstaden, Den Europæiske Fond for Regionaludvikling. Length: 28:33

(Information retrieved from the ESS website.)