The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) () is a

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-radiation light source facility in

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. Located in an eighteen-hectare campus at Shanghai National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, on the

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in the

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" ''Shanghai particle accelerator to open its doors for business.'' Retrieved on 2009-05-12. SSRF is operated by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP). The facility became operational in 2009, reaching full energy operation in Dec 2012. When it opened, it was China's costliest single science facility. The facility "has played a key role in revealing the inner mechanism of various cancers."

Construction

It has a circumference of 432 metres, and is designed to operate at 3.5

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, the highest energy of any synchrotron other than the Big Three facilities

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in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan,

ESRF The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is a joint research facility situated in Grenoble, France, supported by 22 countries (13 member countries: France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, ...

in Grenoble, France and

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at Argonne National labs, United States. It will initially have eight beamlines. The particle accelerator cost 1.2 billion yuan (

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176 million). It is China's biggest light facility. It is located under a building with a futuristic snail-shaped roof. The synchrotron opened to universities, scientific institutes and companies for approved research in May 2009. *Dec. 2004 - Sept. 2006: Building construction *Jun. 2005 - Mar. 2008: Accelerator equipment and components manufacture and assembly *Dec. 2005 - Dec. 2008: Beamline construction and assembly *Apr. 2007 - Jul. 2007: Linac commissioning *Oct. 2007 - Mar. 2008: Booster commissioning *Apr. 2008 - Oct. 2008: Storage ring commissioning *Nov. 2008 - Mar. 2009: ID Beamline commissioning *Apr. 2009: The SSRF operation begins

References

External links

Official site
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