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27 August 2018

Last week on the construction site, the circular walls of the Target Monolith were cast in heavy concrete. Hanging eight metres above the Target Station’s (D02) base slab, these walls will surround the target wheel at the heart of the ESS facility. They are 800 millimetres thick and form a diameter of more than 11 metres. The next step for the Monolith construction will be to reinforce and cast the top vault. 

Internal finishing is now in progress in the E03 and E04 laboratory buildings, and large internal viewing windows have been fitted to look out over the long-range instrument hall and beamline gallery. Across the site to the east, the Logistics Building (F03) is nearly ready for walls and a roof. It should be weather-tight by the middle of October.

Outside the Cryo-Compressor Building (G04), the last of the cryoplant’s 19 outdoor helium tanks was delivered and installed. And finally, the massive installation of process piping running from building to building across the site is moving ahead quickly, with completion scheduled for November.

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Target Monolith circular walls one day before casting

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Inside the Monolith

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Target Monolith circular walls one day before casting

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Active Cells Handling area

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Accelerator-to-Target (A2T) area

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Ground works for the ESS Campus buildings is now underway

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Utility area behind the Monolith

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D01 instrument hall

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D08 lab building foundation works

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Looking toward the Target Station from the top of the Accelerator tunnel

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E04 lab facade

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E buildings

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Interior of the long-range instrument hall

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E01 installation works

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View of the long-range instrument hall and guide hall from the E04 lab building.

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E04 lab interior works

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E04 lab interior works

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E04 lab interior works

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E04 viewing window

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All 19 helium tanks are now in place outside of the Cryo-Compressor Building

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Process piping, with the Sprinkler Building (H10) in the background

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Wave guide support structure in the klystron gallery

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Piping in the klystron gallery to the Test Stand 3 cryo-chicane shielding bunker

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Safety barriers in the klystron gallery

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Klystron gallery test stand workshop

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Klystron gallery Test Stand 2

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Composite surveyor's flight scanning image from July 26, 2018 

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