World’s Strongest Laser Facility will be Built in Romania
Three countries-the former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe was chosen to host a facility for the development of the most ambitious physics experiment by the European Union. Experiments in the project named Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is aimed to build the most powerful laser in the world near the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
As reported by Softpedia, last Wednesday (13/10), the facility will allow scientists to conduct experiments which ranging on the intensity of light that had not been achieved before.
Later, the facility will also be dedicated to investigate the interaction of laser in the region of ultra-relatively unexplored. It is also used to build the sources of radiation and particles of ultra short, intense, and unprecedented for applied and fundamental science.
As for the laser facility will be ‘given’ in Romania, Hungary, and Czech Republic. The Cost is estimated to reach approximately 500 million euros (approximately U.S. $ 728.5 million). Based on initial plans, scientific research will be done is about nuclear physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and high energy physics.
Gordon Bajnai, Prime Minister of Hungary, recently announced that the cancer therapy and other forms of health care will also be conducted.
Development of a very impressive facility will involve about 300 scientists and will eventually hire 600 support personnel.
The project will begin no later than the year 2011 and is expected to be completed in 2015. Other countries involved in the ELI project is France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, the United States and Japan to act as a foreign observer.
