In an article today in Nature, David Cyranoski reports on how the new
US$331 million China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) facility will
allow the country to produce intense neutron beams to allow the study
of materials.
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Originally Posted by David Cyranoski, Nature
China fires up next-generation neutron-science facility
Beam generator puts country in elite company for doing experiments in materials science and other fields.
David Cyranoski
14 November 2017
China is revving up its next-generation neutron generator and will soon start experiments there. That will lift the country into a select group of nations with facilities that produce intense neutron beams to study the structure of materials.
The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) in Dongguan, a 2.2-billion-yuan (US$331-million) centre, will allow the country’s growing pool of top-notch physicists and material scientists, along with international collaborators, to compete in multiple physics and engineering fields. Its designers also hope that the facility will lead to commercial products and applications ranging from batteries and bridges to aeroplane engines and cancer therapy.
“It is not only a big step forward for Chinese scientists, but also a significant event for the international scientist community,” says Wang Xun-Li, a physicist at the City University of Hong Kong who has been involved in planning the facility.
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Full story here :-
http://www.nature.com/news/china-fir...cility-1.22976