The Spanish government gave the green light in March to a project to build a synchrotron light source near Barcelona. Scheduled to be constructed between 2003 and 2007, the synchrotron will have a beam energy of 2.5 GeV and will serve an international user community estimated at more than 160 research groups. The project’s construction budget of € 120 million and the running costs of € 12 million per year will be shared between the Spanish central government and the government of Catalonia.
