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Excerpt from the Statement from CEO
As we close the books for the third quarter of 2011, I amvery pleased to report that important progress has been made during the period, with an emphasis on the technical and organisational areas. At the recent ESS Steering Committee meeting in September, Switzerland became the thirteenth Partner Country to sign the Memorandum of Understanding, and as such signal their commitment to the future development of the ESS project. We welcome the formalisation of their collaboration most warmly.
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Excerpt from the Statement from CEO
This second quarter report marks one full year since ESS AB became a separate legal entity after a number of years within Lund University. These twelve months have seen the creation of a new organisation with the ultimate goal of building of European Spallation Source in Lund and Copenhagen. This is no small achievement, and the majority of processes and administrative foundations are now in place and well-established.
Perhaps more importantly, 17 European partner nations have been brought together in order to construct what will be by far the world's most powerful source of slow neutrons for the study of materials in all their complexity thereby providing European industry with first-hand knowledge in order to remain competitive in this global economy in which we find ourselves.
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Download Interim Report Q1 2011 (pdf)
The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the world’s leading research centre for the study of materials using beams of slow neutrons when it reaches full specification in 2025.
Materials science – in all its diversity from pharmaceuticals to computer memories and
beyond - underpins almost all high-technology industries. Equally well, materials
technology offers the pathway towards solutions of some of the most pressing
problems facing society today – those of environmental management, the sustainable
use of energy, climate control, and health issues.
For these problems to be solved in a timely and economically viable manner, all
scientific tools must be brought to bear. It is particularly important therefore that ESS
will have as its sister facility, the MAX IV high-brightness synchrotron source that is
starting construction now. ESS and MAX IV are to be built in southern Sweden on the
outskirts of the university city of Lund. It is one of the highest priorities of the European
Roadmap for Large Scale Scientific Facilities and represents the largest scientific project yet built in the Nordic countries.
Just as important, however, is the vision of ESS to be a different kind of scientific facility: different in the way it engages with the user community; different in the way in which it deals with innovations; and different in its goal to be the first sustainable scientific large facility especially with respect to its energy balance. |
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Download "Interim Report for Fourth Quarter 2010" (pdf)
 Foreword: The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a high-profile, high-technology, high-prestige project that is to be built in southern Sweden in the university city of Lund. It is one of the highest priorities of the European Roadmap for Large Scale Scientific Facilities and represents the largest such project yet built in the Nordic countries.
It will attract many thousands of researchers in the years to come and, together with the MAX IV high-brightness synchrotron source, will become a renowned world-leading centre for the study of materials in all their diversity – the materials that are necessary for European industry to be able to develop the new devices which are such a feature of today’s society, and which underpin the competitivity of such industry and indeed are a driver of the GDP for the whole of Europe in this global economy.
Just as important however is the vision of ESS to be a different kind of scientific facility: different in the way it engages with the user community; different in the way in which it deals with innovations; and different in its goal to be the first sustainable scientific large facility especially with respect to its energy balance.
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Download "Interim Report for Third Quarter 2010" (pdf)
Foreword: The construction of the European Spallation Source is a key element in European efforts to further develop world-leading scientific research infrastructures. ESS is a multi-disciplinary science facility, serving life sciences, materials science, energy and climate sciences, and underpins the vision behind the recommendations of OECD for large-scale neutron facilities worldwide. ESS will be a high intensity, slow neutron source to be built on a shared site with the MAX IV synchrotron to the northeast of the university town of Lund in Southern Sweden.
The choice of Lund as the site for ESS took place in Brussels on 28th May 2009 at a meeting of EU Research Ministers following an intense and extended process, which saw the site at Lund preferred to those proposed by four other EU countries. The conceptual design and planning for such a high power neutron source started in 1991 at a scientific workshop in Simonskall in northwestern Germany.
Following the site decision the team in Lund launched the process, which aims towards an operational start of ESS in 2019 and the attainment of full specification in 2025. Our work will lead to many interesting possibilities and will be beneficial to both the scientific community and the wider society. The first interim report of ESS AB provides a picture of the current financial position and the many opportunities that lie ahead, but also indicates the risks associated with a large project of this kind.
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