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Download: "ESS Activity Report 2010-2011" (PDF, 5 MB)
 Foreword: We look back at a year full of change and progress for ESS, full of excitements and the occasional frustrations, full of uncertainties and promise. Let us look back and see what has been achieved since 1st July last year when we became an independent entity, but let us concentrate on the future - the road ahead.
ESS will be a 5MW long pulse source of slow neutrons, with 22 instruments, and driven by a superconducting proton linac. We have 17 partner countries. ESS will be a very powerful neutron source. But it will be a very different kind of neutron source. Nothing like it has been built before. As such the scientific exploitation of ESS is an important topic deserving of much reflection and innovation. We are taking initiatives now to involve the present and future user community in defining this through our Science and Scientists meetings at Prague and Berlin where we shall stress our emphasis to Get Involved. The ESS Science Symposia, run by specialist groups of researchers, and which are proving to be remarkably popular, will also help to fulfill this goal.
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ESS will be different in many ways - its instrumentation and its green field certainly - but much more fundamentally: the way it relates to the environment; the way it interacts with and embraces its user community; the way it capitalises upon its intellectual property; the way in which it nurtures its staff; the way it operates its instrument suite. Perhaps these are lofty ideals, but they are worth aiming for. We must keep in mind that we are talking about a neutron source which will operate at full specification only in 2025. Life will be different then, and ESS should mirror that.
Help us to define this future!
Colin Carlile
Director of ESS
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Download: "ESS Activity Report 2009-2010" (PDF, 5 MB)
 Foreword: To say that the past twelve months have been a pivotal year for the European Spallation Source would be an understatement.
The political agreement at the end of May 2009 to choose Lund in southern Sweden as the site for ESS has been widely endorsed by the scientific community in Europe and has resulted in a growing number of countries – currently 14 – joining together to take the project through a three-year Design Update phase and on to construction, so that the European community of researchers will have at their disposal the world’s most powerful neutron source.
This has only been achieved through the dedicated work of many people. Of course the energy and determination of the three competing sites – Bilbao, Debrecen and Lund – ultimately ensured that a decision would be taken. This in turn was made possible by the engagement of ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, which resolved to reach a conclusion about the siting of the facility, but none of this would have been possible without the pioneering work over 20 years of an impressive assembly of talent.
Now the first hesitant steps are being taken to realise in practice the European Spallation Source. The future decade will be no less challenging than the previous two decades. However, all barriers have been removed and Europe is working together. It will once again require an array of expertise, at least as talented and determined as those who have brought us to this point. But there is no shortage of talent in Europe, and no shortage of determination.
Colin Carlile
Director of ESS
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Download: "ESS Scandinavia Activity Report 2008-2009 (PDF, 8 Mb)
Number of pages: 32
 Summary: During the year ESS Scandinavia has entered into collaboration with CERN on accelerators and targets, with CEA Saclay (France) on accelerators and ion sources, with SNS (USA) and FZ Jülich (Germany) on targets and instruments, with BNL (USA) on accelerator design, with KTH (Sweden) on target materials and safety aspects, with DESY/XFEL (Germany) on accelerators and management of in-kind contributions, with Copenhagen University and ISIS (UK) on instrumentation and data management, and with the Cockcroft Institute (UK) on accelerators.
In several of these collaborative partnerships ESS Scandinavia has employed technical and scientific personnel in Lund, seconding them to the collaborating partner laboratories to work on the ESS design and on technologies and systems related to potential contributions to the ESS in Lund. ESS Scandinavia firmly holds the view that technical collaboration is an excellent basis for successful, future, in-kind contributions of complex technology. During the year, seven accelerator experts and four target experts have been employed and added to the ESSS exsisting staff now exceeding 30 people, eager and ready to enter into the next phase of developing the ESS with a site decision made for Lund. This activity report is a brief account of the work of the Secretariat during 2008 - 2009.
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Download: "The ESS in Lund - Effects on regional development" (PDF, 9 Mb)
Number of pages: 148
 Summary: As commissioned by Region Skåne, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has carried out a study on the expected effects on regional development as a result of siting the ESS in Lund.
The ESS, like MAX IV, will be a world leader in its field and together these two facilities will be a hub in the European research infrastructure and be a unique opportunity to create a stimulating research environment. The ESS will contribute to growth in the region and to strengthening the research and development brand of the Øresund Region and Sweden. The effects on growth will partly be direct based on the amount of money that is invested in Skåne, partly more long term and indirect as a result of the significance of the facility for the climate of innovation, technological developments, branding of the region and possible spin-off effects. How great the indirect effects will be is, however, dependent on how well we succeed in integrating the ESS and exploiting the long-term effects it can provide.
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Download: ESS Scandinavia Booklet "Neutrons & Health" (PDF, 10 Mb)
Number of pages: 30
 Summary: The ESS-Scandinavia team is bringing together the energies and expertise of the scientific community to propose a preliminary programme that will take the project forward. In particular, ESS-Scandinavia is reviewing several aspects of neutron research, such as those related to human health, in order to highlight the impact of neutrons and the challenges that should be met. New neutron methods developed at the ESS will be required to tackle challenges set by the quest for a higher quality of life and better health in a clean environment. They are needed to elucidate more complex biological structures and processes - perhaps eventually in living cells in real time.
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