The employees of the Fermilab South Dakota Services Section moved into a new building in Lead, South Dakota. Pictured here in front of the leased building are (from left): Joe Pygott, Ladia Jakubec, Patrick Weber, and Victor Hernandez (LBNF/DUNE FSCF Summer Intern).
On November 18, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility and South Dakota Services Division team held our all-hands meeting following the director’s all-hands in September. Elaine McCluskey, Patrick Weber, and I shared some highlights from and priorities for the division. These are the top five takeaways from that meeting.
On Dec. 3, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility and South Dakota Services Division team held our all-hands meeting following the lab-wide meeting in October. It’s a busy time, as we have accelerated the pace for the entire LBNF project over the past six months. 2019 will start fast as well, with our DOE Independent Progress Review happening in early January.
Sometimes, you can work on things for a long time, and it’s hard to measure progress. But there are other times when, suddenly, everything falls into place, and things happen very quickly!
We received great news on Sept. 1: The LBNF/DUNE CD-3a milestone was approved by Undersecretary Lynn Orr on behalf of the DOE Energy Systems Acquisition Advisory Board.
Another few months have flashed by, and it’s time for a quick status update from the LBNF/DUNE project.
The LBNF/DUNE team has had two main focus areas: gaining the approvals necessary to start early construction at the project’s far site at Sanford Lab in 2017 and prototyping the various systems that will eventually be scaled up and installed in DUNE’s massive underground neutrino detector.
The LBNF/DUNE project achieved a major milestone last week with the successful completion of a DOE Independent Project Review.
In May our director, Nigel Lockyer, announced his intent to form an organization to support the U.S. flagship neutrino program based at Fermilab. This program includes the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), which will provide the support infrastructure, and the high-intensity neutrino beam necessary to enable the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to proceed. LBNF will require unique facilities to support DUNE’s far site detectors at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory, in Lead, South Dakota, as well as here at Fermilab,…
Chris Mossey observes the LBNF/DUNE CD-1R review and meets many members of the Fermilab and DOE international team.