Funding for the research center ESS is completely finished, announced Minister for Education Jan Björklund today. “I uncorked the champagne last night,” he says. The financing was completed after negotiations with Germany.
Funding for the research center ESS in Lund is completely finished, announced Minister for Education Jan Björklund at a press conference in Visby today.
- A great day for Sweden. The largest research effort becomes reality, he says.
- I uncorked the champagne last night, said a beaming Björklund.
The idea is for the facility to become a world leader in particle physics.
Final Funding was completed after negotiations in recent days with Germany. Sweden won the competition for the location of the ESS in 2009, but until recently, funding has been unclear.
Germany participates with eleven percent, or 1.8 billion.
At TT’s question of how to deal with the occasional percent made in funding Björklund says that this is not a problem.
- We are at 97.5 percent and we think that, as always, will be more financiers. There will be enough and might be over.
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ESS (European Spallation Source) planned to be built on Brunnshög in Lund. Researchers use neutrons to study materials which leads to the parts of the plant becomes radioactive.
Construction cost is estimated at SEK 15.5 billion and the operation to 1.1 billion per year. ESS plans to open in 2019.
17 countries are involved: Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, France, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary.
Sweden takes 35 percent of the construction cost and ten percent of the operating cost.
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Source: Sydsvenskan
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/almedalen/finansieringen-av-ess-i-hamn/