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