[Neutron] ESS and SNS launch a joint initiative to make large scientific facilities climate neutral

[Johan Långberg]

ESS and SNS launch a joint initiative to make large scientific  
facilities climate neutral

ESS Scandinavia in Lund, Sweden, and SNS in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA,  
have launched a joint initiative in climate neutrality of large  
scientific facilities. The goal is to make future research possible  
without negative effects on the climate.

- With the experience built up when building and operating the neutron  
spallation source at SNS we will be able to further optimize the  
energy management when building ESS in Lund in order to achieve our  
sustainability goals, says Professor Colin Carlile, Director of ESS  
Scandinavia. The data gathered at SNS are invaluable to us since it  
comes from a large operating facility.
Large scientific facilities typically use large amounts of energy to  
operate their equipment, much of it vented into the environment as low- 
grade heat. By judicious design, power needs can be minimized,  
recycling can be maximized ande he carbon footprint of such facilities  
reduced to net zero.
- Our goal is to become a model for future environmentally friendly  
research facilities, says Colin Carlile.
As a part of the initiative Thomas Parker, Energy Manager at ESS  
Scandinavia, will be seconded to the SNS facility in Oak Ridge,  
Tennessee where he will work together with the staff at SNS.
- It is our hope and ambition that Thomas' mission at SNS will yield  
results that are beneficial to both parties and that one or more  
projects will result, says Colin Carlile.

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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