Daresbury builds a 30‐MV electrostatic accelerator

By far the highest voltage tandem electrostatic accelerator is now under construction at the Daresbury Laboratory in England. It is a 30‐MV terminal voltage machine that is expected to produce 60‐MeV protons and heavy ions up to about 800 MeV. The accelerator is being built by the laboratory itself, rather than being purchased from one of the two leading suppliers of electrostatic accelerators, High Voltage Engineering Corp and National Electrostatics Corp, although formal agreement has been signed with the former encompassing joint R&D activities. The Daresbury Nuclear Structure Facility (whose abbreviation unfortunately leads to confusion with a venerable American institution) is expected to be finished by the end of 1978.