COMPONENTS from high tech scientific equipment at Warrington’s STFC Daresbury Laboratory are to be shipped out to a new project in the Middle East.
The components – originally from the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury – have been donated to a major international research centre to be built in Jordan under the umbrella of UNESCO.
They have been decommissioned at Daresbury but will be brought back into use as part of the SESAME Project (Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East).
This has brought together the governments and scientists of Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories and Turkey, with representatives from another 11 countries – including the UK – taking part as observers to provide help and advice
The Daresbury components will be used to construct experimental beamlines for research into materials and life sciences.
The equipment was formally gifted by the Chief Executive of Science and Technology Facilities Council, Professor Keith Mason to the UK observer on the SESAME Council Professor Samar Hasnain at Daresbury.
Professor Mason said: “The UK was the first country to develop a dedicated synchrotron light source and I am pleased that the donation of some of its components will enable further scientific research and collaboration between the nations involved in the SESAME Project.”
Professor Hasnain added: “I would like to thank the STFC for this generous donation to the SESAME Project. I am delighted that this equipment will go to a project that unites the participating nations, enabling them to work together. It will allow the next generation of their scientists to carry out world-class fundamental scientific research.”
COMPONENTS from high tech scientific equipment at Warrington's STFC
Daresbury Laboratory are to be shipped out to a new project in the
Middle East.
Daresbury's gift to the Middle East
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