Minister Im Hye-sook: "Heavy Ion Accelerator, Significant Achievements... Doing Our Best Until the End"

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bong-su] On the 12th, Lim Hye-sook, Minister of Science and ICT, visited the construction site of the heavy ion accelerator, which is behind schedule, and encouraged the personnel by saying, "Successful innovation is achieved through many trials and errors."

On the same day, Minister Lim visited the Heavy Ion Accelerator Construction Project Group at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) to check the progress of the heavy ion accelerator construction project and held a meeting with project personnel and accelerator-related experts.

This project is a large-scale research facility within the Science Belt being established by the government to build a foundation for basic science, aiming to construct a world-class heavy ion accelerator. The performance targets are an acceleration energy of 200 MeV/u (uranium) and an acceleration output providing a 400 kW beam, with the first phase of the project scheduled to be completed this year. Initially, both the low-energy and high-energy acceleration sections were pursued simultaneously, but due to technical difficulties, only the low-energy section is planned to be completed by the end of this year. The budget for the first phase alone amounts to a total of 1.5183 trillion KRW.

The project group expects that once the low-energy accelerator is completed by the end of this year, initial experiments using the extracted heavy ion beam will be possible.

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Minister Lim said, "Successful innovation is achieved through many trials and errors. Despite many difficult situations involving high-level technologies, considerable achievements have been made," adding, "Since the construction of the heavy ion accelerator is a path no one has taken before, it will be difficult and challenging, but as this is a project involving large-scale funding, I hope everyone will take responsibility and do their best until the end."

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