Timeline - Second target station and Phase One instruments
The ISIS second target station project ran from 2003 to 2009. It was completed on time and to budget. First neutrons were created in 2008 and all seven Phase One instruments are operational. Scientific commissioning of the instruments is largely complete and experiments from the ISIS user programme are underway.
Timeline
2002 | |
| First Science and Technical Advisory Committee | July 2002 |
2003 | |
| Detailed planning approval | March 2003 |
| Approve initial instrument suite | June 2003 |
| Approve target station design concept | July 2003 |
| First project board | October 2003 |
| Complete earth moving and landscaping | November 2003 |
2004 | |
| Complete access road 10 | October 2004 |
| Complete R78 technical support building | November 2004 |
2005 | |
| Begin R80 experimental hall construction | January 2005 |
| Complete R80 structural frame | May 2005 |
| Complete target monolith foundation | September 2005 |
| R80 weather-tight | November 2005 |
2006 | |
| Complete R80 construction | March 2006 |
2007 | |
| Complete target services area structure | January 2007 |
| Begin extracted proton beam installation in synchrotron | February 2007 |
| Complete target services area equipment | December 2007 |
| Complete target station | December 2007 |
| Complete extracted proton beam | September 2007 |
| First proton beam to target area | December 2007 |
2008 | |
| Begin instrument neutron guides | January 2008 |
| Begin first phase instrument detectors | March 2008 |
| Begin instrument commissioning | April 2008 |
| First complete instrument installation | June 2008 |
| First measurable neutrons from target | July 2008 |
| Target core fully operational | July 2008 |
| First neutrons produced | August 2008 |
| Start of experimental programme | October 2008 |
2009 | |
Project complete with seven instruments operational | August 2009 |
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