In Spain, is under construction another science facility different and complementary to Alba synchrotron: An Spallation Source in Bilbao.
This facility is one of the options to have a neutron source, and it's the only option that doesn't have a nuclear plant to get this fast free neutrons.
In the media area of the ESSBilbao website, there is a video with an explanation of the project. That is much more than what we have in Alba (I've seen a very few official video of our facility, but they are not promoted in our website).
Another video that looks interesting to follow what's a spallation source, is from the ESS Scandinavia, from where the Bilbao's project is child.
An Spallator can be resumed as a large proton linear accelerator with a metal target at the end of the line, where the impact of the fast protons produces free and fast neutrons in many directions.
There is another video, a bit larger, that shows something more about an Spallation source:
Finally, I like to mention that the website of ESS-Bilbao is in 3 languages: International English and the two local languages: Basque and Spanish. With this, some local people without knowing English can read the website content (perhaps because the study when is Spain the foreign language was French, not all the public must be young-scientist). In Alba, everything is in English, we are not open enough to one closest public.
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