Chancellor Sir Patrick Stewart - European Spallation Source (ESS) research

European Spallation Source (ESS) project a £1.3billion European project to build the world's most advanced and powerful neutron facility for the study of materials at the atomic level - in other words to show where atoms are and what atoms do in materials of scientific and technological importance.

Bob Cywinski, the Professor and Dean of Applied Sciences at the University and his colleagues have embarked on calculations and computer simulations that have the potential to be of enormous global significance. The result might be nuclear power stations that could be turned on and off like a light bulb and will not create potentially dangerous by-products.

Bob Cywinski's basic area of study is the way that sub-atomic particles, especially neutrons, can be used to probe deep inside materials in order to analyse their structure. But first the neutrons have to be produced -- either by nuclear reactor or by a process called spallation, which uses acceleration technology to aim a high energy beam of protons at a heavy metal target from which the neutrons are chipped -- "spallation" is derived from an ancient Anglo Saxon word meaning to take chips from an object.

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[Baradur10]

*girly scream* He said 'voyage' and 'frontier'.

[8aliens]

Its like science, SCIENCE! Is it kept in a complete vacuum? Beause if not wont air molecules interfere with the speeds and directions of the dispersed neutrons befor they get to the detectors. I hope the designers rememberd that, other wise it will be a complete waste of €1.3billion :P

[DevilMudger]

This needs more views.

[romuald5913]

I want it in french, my english is to poor to understant everything. Pleeease translate!

[Nolgthorn]

SCIENCE!

[TheBigComeDown1]

HOLY SHIT. Science is AWESOME!

[runcis182]

Thank you! Original at website always stopped about 2min. Again Thnak you. I need this to my university research.