[Neutron] MoU signed to strengthen cooperation between ESS in Lund and the Norwegian Institute for Energy Technology

[Johan Långberg]

MoU signed to strengthen cooperation between ESS in Lund and the  
Norwegian Institute for Energy Technology

Last Week a Memorandum of Understanding between the Institute for  
Energy Technology (IFE) in Kjeller, Norway and the European Spallation  
Source Scandinavia (ESS) in Lund, Sweden was signed by the Directors  
of IFE and ESS. The objective is to set in place an experimental  
programme between IFE and ESS now that the decision has been made that  
ESS is to be located in Lund.

The cooperation will, amongst other things, result in possibilities  
for Swedish students to study Neutron scattering at IFE and in Lund  
with possibilities to use the neutron facility in Norway. There will  
also be shared postdoc/scientist positions at IFE for the operation of  
two instruments, which were transferred from the neutron facility in  
Studsvik, Sweden, now closed.
- We are convinced that expansion and development of cooperation  
between the two organizations will contribute to further consolidate  
scientific and technological cooperation between Norway and Sweden,  
says Professor Colin Carlile, Director of ESS Scandinavia. Ten years  
ahead of time, these are the first neutron beams of the ESS project.  
It is necessary to start now with the development of specialised  
techniques whilst the design and construction hoes on so that we are  
ready for the first scientific users in 2019.
With the intentions described in the memorandum to collaborate on  
development of electronics and/or detectors, IFE actively contributes  
to the building of ESS, the world's most powerful neutron source, in  
Lund.

For more information, please contact:
Professor Colin Carlile
Director
colin.carlile at esss.se
+46 761 33 33 99

Roger Eriksson
Communications Officer (subst)
Roger.eriksson at esss.se
+46 761 33 33 97

The European Spallation Source – the next generation facility for  
materials research and life science

The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be a multi-disciplinary  
research laboratory based upon the world’s most powerful neutron  
source. ESS can be likened to a large microscope, where neutrons are  
used instead of light to study materials – ranging from polymers and  
pharmaceuticals to membranes and molecules – to gain knowledge about  
their structure and function. ESS will be up to 100 times better than  
existing facilities, opening up new possibilities for researchers in  
for example health, environment, climate, energy and transport  
sciences and cultural heritage.
ESS is an intergovernmental project resembling CERN in Geneva. After  
several years of discussions on the siting, it is now clear that the  
ESS will be built in Lund in southern Scandinavia. The ESS will be  
constructed, financed and operated by those European governments that  
have an interest in the ESS.
The Swedish Government has offered to host the ESS and to cover 50  
percent of the 1,4 B€ investment costs and 20 percent of the  
operating costs together with the Nordic and Baltic states. The ESS  
Scandinavia Secretariat works on a mandate from the Government for the  
planning of the future international ESS organisation. The Director is  
Professor Colin Carlile, previous Director of the world-leading  
Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble.
Negotiations on bringing the ESS to Lund are now underway. The Swedish  
government has appointed Mr. Allan Larsson, former Finance Minister,  
as Sweden’s chief negotiator. Right now the process of obtaining the  
necessary authorisation is progressing, as well as the technical  
preparations and the refinement of the design to site conditions in  
Lund. Building is expected to start around 2012 the first neutrons to  
be produced in 2018-19 and the facility to be fully operational around  
2023.
ESS will support a user community of 5000 researchers and will have  
great strategic importance for the development of the European  
Research Area. Lund and the Malmö-Copenhagen region have excellent  
preconditions to attract leading scientists: several large  
universities, a broad research-based industry, high-quality  
infrastructure, an English-speaking population and world-class  
research capabilities in, among other areas, biotech and nano  
technology. Near by there will be complementary laboratories, such as  
the synchrotron MAX IV in Lund and XFEL and PETRAIII in Hamburg.
ESS Scandinavia engages in the climate change strategies of the  
European Union and the Swedish government, and has adopted the goal  
that the ESS will be carbon dioxide neutral. This will be achieved by  
means of an energy conservation strategy, the use of renewable sources  
of electricity, and the reuse of excess heat through the Lund district  
heating and cooling system. ESS built in Lund will be the first large- 
scale scientific facility operating under this principle, and it will  
be a demonstration project for other future facilities.







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