The High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), the light source device in China, has seen all workers return to work and construction is moving forward at full speed, according to the Science and Technology Daily.
At the construction site, it can be seen that nearly 1,000 people and more than 80 machines are operating.
The person in charge of on-site construction said that the experimental hall area is in the stage of anti-vibration foundation treatment, and other areas have begun to enter the main structure construction phase, the paper said.
The HEPS is expected to cost 4.76 billion yuan (about 693 million U.S. dollars). Built by the Institute of High Energy Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), it looks like a super microscope and will be one of the world's few fourth-generation synchrotron light sources with the ability to probe the inner structures of materials.
(Concept image of the HEPS)
A synchrotron light source is a source of electromagnetic radiation usually produced by a storage ring. The HEPS is expected to produce the world's most powerful X-rays.
Dong Yuhui, deputy director of the project, said last year the facility would become an important platform for basic scientific research, with wide applications in the fields of advanced materials, aerospace, energy and medicine.
