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Download the report (pdf)
Link to the Swedish version (pdf)
Excerpt from the Statement from CEO
"We are now approaching the end of the beginning. 2012 is in many ways a pivotal year for ESS, and is not only due to all of the technical work to be completed by the end of the year. Those who say that we still have much work ahead of us are right, yet after the first few months of this year I am convinced we will succeed.
In the first quarter, we introduced the so-called 'Conceptual Design Report' (CDR), which is the first in a series of technical reports. The report, produced under the direction of the Accelerator Division's Steve Peggs, was released in February and on schedule. It is a comprehensive report that describes the conceptual solutions for the ESS technical design within each area. The contents of the report will form the basis for the ‘Technical Design Report ', which will contain detailed technical descriptions and which will be presented at the end of the year.
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Download: "ESS Activity Report 2010-2011" (PDF, 5 MB)
 Foreword: We look back at a year full of change and progress for ESS, full of excitements and the occasional frustrations, full of uncertainties and promise. Let us look back and see what has been achieved since 1st July last year when we became an independent entity, but let us concentrate on the future - the road ahead.
ESS will be a 5MW long pulse source of slow neutrons, with 22 instruments, and driven by a superconducting proton linac. We have 17 partner countries. ESS will be a very powerful neutron source. But it will be a very different kind of neutron source. Nothing like it has been built before. As such the scientific exploitation of ESS is an important topic deserving of much reflection and innovation. We are taking initiatives now to involve the present and future user community in defining this through our Science and Scientists meetings at Prague and Berlin where we shall stress our emphasis to Get Involved. The ESS Science Symposia, run by specialist groups of researchers, and which are proving to be remarkably popular, will also help to fulfill this goal.
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ESS will be different in many ways - its instrumentation and its green field certainly - but much more fundamentally: the way it relates to the environment; the way it interacts with and embraces its user community; the way it capitalises upon its intellectual property; the way in which it nurtures its staff; the way it operates its instrument suite. Perhaps these are lofty ideals, but they are worth aiming for. We must keep in mind that we are talking about a neutron source which will operate at full specification only in 2025. Life will be different then, and ESS should mirror that.
Help us to define this future!
Colin Carlile
Director of ESS
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Download "Interim Report for Year End / Fourth Quarter" (pdf)
 Foreword: It is with pleasure that I look back on 2011 and the development of our organisation. It is especially noticeable when I see how all the hard work is starting to bear fruit. A clear example is the Conceptual Design Report, to be presented as planned during the first quarter of 2012.
A requirement in order to provide the technical documentation that will form the basis for the decision on construction of ESS has been our continued recruitment of specialists and qualified employees. During the past year we have almost doubled the number of employees.
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Download the report (pdf)
Link to the Swedish version (pdf)
Excerpt from the Statement from CEO
As we close the books for the third quarter of 2011, I amvery pleased to report that important progress has been made during the period, with an emphasis on the technical and organisational areas. At the recent ESS Steering Committee meeting in September, Switzerland became the thirteenth Partner Country to sign the Memorandum of Understanding, and as such signal their commitment to the future development of the ESS project. We welcome the formalisation of their collaboration most warmly.
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