Talk:Diamond Light Source

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I have some recolation that the French Government (or one of their agencies) was also involved in funding Diamond - and that they supported the Welcome Trust in siting it at RAL rather than Darsbury. Is this correct? If so could we add something about it? Andreww 08:02, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Formally the final location of Dimaond was chosen due to the synergy with other facilities (ISIS, CLF, Culham etc). There are many rumours on this topic (e.g. The French wanted X, W.T. wanted Y), and if any are true then there is no evidence of this (in the public domain). In other words the French involvement in the final location is nothing more than rumour...and this sis something strenouously denied by those involved at the time.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.246.132.26 (talk) 09:37, 15 August 2007

[edit] Not a volt!!

3GeV is not three thousand million volts Lipatden 14:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

well it is really as its an electron accelerator and 1eV is the energy required to accelerate an electron through a potential of 1 volt

[edit] What was bigger 30 years ago?

I often heard that Diamond is the biggest UK experiment for 30 years. What was it that was built 30 years ago?

SteveTraylen 09:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

In fact Diamond is the largest project for almost 40 years, since the then Nimrod project at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Nimrod being the forerunner of the ISIS neutron Spalation Facility. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.246.132.26 (talk) 13:05, 14 December 2006