[Neutron] Press release

[Javier Campo]

>>>On behalf of the Spanish and Hungarian 
>>>candidature to ESS, we are pleased to inform 
>>>you about the meeting of the International 
>>>Advisory Board held at the end of July in Bilbao and Debrecen.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>ESS International Advisory Board Meeting in 
>>>Bilbao and Debrecen, 21-25 July 2008
>>>
>>>Hungary and Spain are two of the competing 
>>>three site candidates to host the European 
>>>Spallation Source (ESS), one of the largest 
>>>and most mature projects on the Roadmap of the 
>>>European Strategy Forum on Research 
>>>Infrastructures (ESFRI), endorsed by the 
>>>Competitiveness Council of the European Union. 
>>>These two countries intensively pursue their 
>>>preparation to realize this most ambitious, 
>>>world leading project in creatively combining 
>>>competition with close collaboration. It is 
>>>within this framework that the constituting 
>>>meeting of the common ESS International 
>>>Advisory Board (IAB) took place on July 21-24 
>>>in Bilbao (Basque Country) and Debrecen 
>>>(Eastern Hungary), in the two cities offering 
>>>free of charge most adequate terrains larger 
>>>than 1 km2 in outstanding research, academics, 
>>>cultural, economic and quality of life environments to build ESS.
>>>The charge of the IAB calls for giving “advice 
>>>for the preparation and successful completion 
>>>of the ESS construction project. In particular 
>>>the IAB would provide expertise in the following areas:
>>>·        Potential partnerships for 
>>>realization of the ESS construction project.
>>>·        Relation to other European and international projects.
>>>·        Infrastructure requirements and improvements.
>>>·        New Science opportunities and related instrumentation priorities.
>>>·        Technical developments that would 
>>>improve the characteristics of the source and instrumentation.
>>>·        Lessons learned from other projects.”
>>>The members of IAB belong to the top experts 
>>>in the world in neutron science, construction, 
>>>operation and management of top of the line 
>>>neutron source facilities and similar large 
>>>scientific infrastructures. The two 
>>>co-chairpersons, who took up they function at 
>>>this meeting are Dr. Ian Anderson,  Associate 
>>>Laboratory Director for Neutron Science of Oak 
>>>Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA in 
>>>charge of – amongst others – the currently 
>>>most powerful spallation neutron source in the 
>>>world, SNS; and Prof. József Pálinkás, a 
>>>nuclear physicist from Debrecen and former 
>>>Minister of Education of the Republic of 
>>>Hungary, who was recently elected President of 
>>>the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
>>>The program of the first, constituting meeting 
>>>of the IAB ( which was attended by 11 of the 
>>>14 members, all juggling with a most exacting 
>>>work calendar) included a full-day session on 
>>>22 July to examine both the site specific and 
>>>the collaborative part of the project 
>>>preparation work at the two sites. The teams 
>>>have just accomplished a major milestone 
>>>towards the realization of ESS by submitting 
>>>their answers to the detailed questionnaire 
>>>from the ESFRI Working Group on ESS, charged 
>>>by ESFRI to evaluate the quality and adequacy 
>>>of each site candidate to host ESS with full 
>>>success. The IAB has appreciated the 
>>>outstanding quality of the site proposals both at Bilbao and Debrecen.
>>>Besides the formal meeting of the Board, IAB 
>>>members had a chance the inspect the proposed 
>>>pieces of land on the outskirts of both cities 
>>>to site ESS, in particular also from the 
>>>chartered aircraft that took them from Bilbao 
>>>directly to Debrecen, offering on the way 
>>>bird’s eye views of the favourable location of 
>>>both of these terrains close to the respective 
>>>international city airports. The participants 
>>>also got familiar with renowned institutions 
>>>which can provide excellent science and 
>>>technology background for the future ESS, such 
>>>as the Bizkaia Technology Park or the Debrecen 
>>>Universitycampus, including ATOMKI nuclear 
>>>research centre. They also enjoyed the 
>>>hospitality of both cities by visiting for 
>>>example the world famous Guggenheim Museum in 
>>>Bilbao or the five centuries old, prestigious Calvinist College inDebrecen.
>>>When completed and commissioned by 2019 ESS 
>>>will become the premier neutron research 
>>>centre  in the world, offering up to an order 
>>>of magnitude higher performance for the study 
>>>of all kinds of materials in many scientific 
>>>disciplines than its most powerful and modern 
>>>rivals at that time, the SNS facility in the 
>>>USA and J-PARC in Japan. Both of these 
>>>facilities started operation quite recently, 
>>>and are on track to take over world leadership 
>>>in this crucial field of research from the 
>>>world leaders of the past decades, the ILL in 
>>>Grenoble, France and ISIS near Oxford in the 
>>>UK – both situated in Europe. ESS will achieve 
>>>its superior performance in a very cost 
>>>effective fashion by the use of a new 
>>>technical concept called Long Pulses, 
>>>originally introduced by F. Mezei, the common 
>>>scientific director of the ESS-Bilbao and 
>>>ESS-Hungary projects. Europe boost the world 
>>>premier neutron research community with 4500 
>>>scientist using neutrons for the exploration 
>>>and understanding of microscopic and nanoscale 
>>>structures and processes in a huge variety of 
>>>branches of science, including engineering, 
>>>physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology, 
>>>cultural heritage, life sciences, molecular biology, etc.
>>>The members of the IAB are:
>>>
>>>Carlos Alejandre (Spain, Deputy director of ITER)
>>>Viktor Aksenov (Russia, Vice-director of 
>>>Russian Research Center, Kurchatov Institute)
>>>Ian Anderson (UK, director of SNS)
>>>Carla Andreani (Italy, professor, Phisycs Department, University Rome)
>>>Masatoshi Arai (Japan, director of J-SNS )
>>>Kurt Clausen (Danemark, Head of Department, Condensed Matter Science, PSI)
>>>Gabriele Fioni (France, Member of CEA, deputy 
>>>director of Material Science Institute )
>>>John D. Galambos (USA, Application Programming team leader for the SNS)
>>>José Luis Martínez (Spain, Deputy director and 
>>>Head of Project and Techniques Division,  ILL)
>>>József Pálinkás (Hungary, President ofHungarian Academy of Sciences)
>>>Mike J. Rowe (USA, former director of NIST Centre for Neutron Research)
>>>Helmut Rauch (Austria, Professor Emeritius, 
>>>Atominstitute of the Austrian Universities, Wien)
>>>Helmut Schober (Germany, President of the 
>>>German Comittee for Neutron Research, group leader at ILL)
>>>Andrew Taylor (UK, STCF, Director ofISIS)
>>>
>>>
>>>Ministry for National Development and Economy
>>>ESS Coordination Center
>>>
>>>H-1055 Budapest, Honvéd u. 13-15.
>>>Tel: +36 1 374 2860
>>>E-mail: <mailto:hungaryforess at nfgm.gov.hu>hungaryforess at nfgm.gov.hu
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