World's deepest underground lab to boost China's research in dark matter
STORY: World's deepest underground lab to boost China's research in dark matter
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 7, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 8, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:14
LOCATION: CHENGDU, China
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the laboratory
2. various of Jinping Mountain
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI HONGBI, Engineer with the physics laboratory
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LI HONGBI, Engineer with the physics laboratory
5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): YUE QIAN, Professor at Tsinghua University
STORYLINE:
A 2,400-meter-deep physics laboratory in southwest China's Sichuan Province became operational on Thursday, making it the deepest and largest underground lab in the world.
The Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments (DURF) is located beneath Jinping Mountain in Sichuan's Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
The DURF, with a total room capacity of 330,000 cubic meters, is the second phase of China Jinping Underground Laboratory. It started construction in December 2020 a
- Product Code
- ILEA002066828
- Registered date
- 2023/12/08 00:00:00
- Credit
- Xinhua / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Xinhua News Agency.All Rights Reserved
- Media size
- 1920 × 1080 pixel
- Deployment size
- 70.26(MB)*
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