Proposition 54K1528

Projet de loi portant assentiment au Protocole d'adhésion du Gouvernement de la Fédération de Russie à la Convention du 16 décembre 1988 relative à la construction et à l'exploitation d'une Installation européenne de rayonnement synchrotron, fait à Grenoble le 23 juin 2014 et à Paris le 15 juillet 2014.

General information ¶

Submitted by

MR Swedish coalition

Submission date

Dec. 16, 2015

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Status

Adopted

Requirement

Simple

Subjects

nuclear research basic research international agreement apparatus based on the use of rays scientific research

Voting ¶

Voted to adopt

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Discussion ¶

Jan. 28, 2016 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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Mr Vandenput, rapporteur, refers to the written report.

Ladies and gentlemen, I will be brief. I would like to highlight a few points related to this bill.

Bills, bills of approval always take a long time before they are presented to our assembly. Also, I would like to emphasize that the Protocol of Accession of the Government of the Russian Federation to the European Synchrotron Radiation Installation, a protocol that was signed in France in June and July 2014, is already submitted in the form of a bill to the approval of our assembly. I would therefore like to emphasize the government’s work in this regard.

The group is pleased with this. Indeed, the membership of the Russian Federation in the Synchrotron project has many advantages, primarily from a financial point of view – which is not at all negligible – because Russia’s entry into this European project brings very significant additional resources. The project needed this because there was a moment of concern among the researchers to see whether this ambitious programme of scientific upgrading of the instruments would be able to realize.

Indeed, one of the most positive immediate contributions of this membership is that the launch in 2015 of the second phase of implementation of the program is, from now on, much more solidly assured thanks to the approval project that we will approve, I hope, soon. This second phase will allow to rebuild the accelerator and source system, with unprecedented technologies, developed by scientists and engineers. The project developed together will thus, at the beginning of the 2020s, become the world’s most efficient synchrotron. I would like to remind him.

There are many on the European territory.

A synchrotron is the grandson of the cyclotron. Cyclotron is the first generation of particle accelerators. It will allow for a much more thorough analysis and knowledge of X-rays.

This leads to some consequences that I will return to. I confess, Mr. Nollet, that I do not know the exact distance of each of the synchrotrons on the European territory. I think we can do some research.

As the motif exhibition specifies, the applications are not at all negligible as they include biology, chemistry, physics, material sciences, micro and nano-electronics, micro-optics, environmental sciences, petrochemistry, pharmacy, medicine, archaeology, etc. Many scientific disciplines are involved in this project.

I come to a last very important point. This is a true European flower in the field of scientific research. Our country’s participation in this boom opens essential potential for our universities, for our researchers, for the high-tech industries, i.e. the “developed industries”.

Since its inception in 1988, the Synchrotron project has already distributed more than €2 billion in contracts to the commercial and industrial sectors, contracts that directly irrigate, Mr. Van Hees, the economies of the countries that are signatories of the project convention. I would like to emphasize that this is not just about multinational companies.

Mr. Nollet, the phase provides for the creation of a more efficient source of X-rays that will reduce the horizontal spread or, what is called in scientific terms "emittance", the beams of the cyclotron to a level never reached before. This includes the construction and commissioning of new magnetic elements in the storage ring, the construction of four high-tech light lines, capable of exploiting the brightness and consistency of the new X-ray source, and finally the development of an unmatched infrastructure for instrumentation related to the X-ray source.

Dear colleagues, let me continue on my launch. Otherwise, I risk losing myself in my development. Let me get what I wanted to get.

The introduction of Russia into the project will allow us to move towards a greener synchrotron. But it is always a European flower. While scientific infrastructures require a lot of energy to function, the project seeks to become more energy-efficient. By its design, the new project accelerator will reduce the storage ring’s electricity consumption by almost a third, saving 9 GWh per year, while increasing the beam brightness and the duration of the X-rays by a factor of 30 to a minimum.

Last, this will also bring advances in structural biology, which will also reduce the experimentation on laboratory animals, a matter to which we have often been attentive.

Does anyone ask for the word?

Does anyone ask for the word?

There are no other speakers. I can’t imagine anyone daring to speak on that after that.