News : ESS Scandinavia

The ESS Scandinavia Secretariat today becomes a Swedish public limited company, European Spallation Source ESS AB.
Today, the Swedish Government announced the transformation of the ESS Secretariat into a public limited company under Swedish company law. At an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, held in Stockholm, the European Spallation Source ESS AB was set up.

The European Spallation Source will be the...

The European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, is today joined by Professor Ferenc Mezei, one of the originators of the initial ESS technical design.
The European Spallation Source will be the world’s most powerful research facility for materials and life science using neutrons. It will be built in Lund in southern Sweden. Fourteen European countries are currently partners in the project, which has now entered...

On February 19th a conference will be held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark about the construction and use of the European Spallation Source, the next generation materials research facility to be built in Lund, Sweden. Invited are all companies and organisations that wish to get involved in the ESS, with topics ranging from design, construction and operation as well as using neutrons for industrial R&D.

Hungary will become the 14th Partner Country in the European Spallation Source research center. All three of the former site contenders now join forces to build the ESS in Sweden.
The European Spallation Source will be the world’s most powerful research facility for materials and life science with neutrons, and it will be built in Lund in southern Sweden.

In a Letter of Intent the Hungarian Government declares...

More than 100 international scientists took part in the ESS Workshop on particle and medical physics, concluded today. The participation exceeded the expectations, showing the very large interest for ESS as a unique research tool for fundamental physics.
The European Spallation Source will be the world’s most powerful research facility for investigation with neutrons. The scientific planning has already started...

On 2-4 December, the European Spallation Source invites the physics communities to identify the unique research opportunities that the ESS will provide within fundamental and medical physics, in order to shape an important science programme at ESS.
The European Spallation Source will be the world’s most powerful research facility for materials research with neutrons. The scientific planning has started in order...

Today, the ESS Steering Committee launched the Preconstruction Phase at their first meeting in Copenhagen. Representatives from 13 European Countries, who will partner the building of the European Spallation Source in Lund, met in order to form the governing body of this European project and agreed upon the specifications and guidelines needed to start the next phase, the Preconstruction phase.