Diamond Light Source upgrade receives £500 million funding boost
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Julia Robinson2023-09-12T08:30:00
The modernisation programme will turn the facility into a fourth generation synchrotron with five new beamlines
The upgrade of the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire is to receive a funding boost of over £500 million from the UK government and Wellcome Trust.
The announcement was made on 6 September by science and technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, during a visit to Diamond which is based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
The £519 million funding injection will go towards the Diamond-II upgrade which is expected to conclude in 2030 and will involve construction of a new, brighter synchrotron with three new flagship beamlines and critical beamline upgrades with a comprehensive series of upgrades to optics, detectors, sample environments, sample delivery capabilities and computing.