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Instrumentation

UK ready to overhaul its synchrotron

by Alex Scott
June 16, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 22

 

The UK’s largest scientific facility, the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire, is set to undergo an upgrade over the next few years at a cost of more than $600 million. The project will be funded largely by the UK government and the Wellcome foundation. UK academic and industrial scientists use the synchrotron, which is housed in a building with a 730 m circumference, to gather detailed information about the structure of materials. The upgrade will include the synchrotron’s core machinery.

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