Ongoing Projects
Showcase of ongoing accelerator projects and facilities
Major accelerator projects currently under development, construction, or commissioning around the world are highlighted below. IPAC’27 is honored to provide a forum for effective and productive discussion that supports these projects and strengthens the accelerator community.
The project information below represents a snapshot as of 2026.
Location / Institution: Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Type: Project Upgrade
Short description: Upgrading the current ALS into a fourth-generation light source.
Estimated Project Cost: $900M USD
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Location / Institution: BNL
Type: New Project
Short description: The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), being designed by BNL, JLab, and partners, will collide polarized high-energy electron beams with proton and ion beams at center-of-mass energies of 20–140 GeV. It will provide detailed insight into the quark and gluon structure of nucleons and nuclei, the strong nuclear force, and the origin of spin.
Estimated Project Cost: $2.8B USD
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Location / Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Type: New Project
Short description: This project proposes adding a beamline off the AGS using slow-extracted proton and heavy-ion beams delivered to an end station designed for radiation effects testing.
Estimated Project Cost: $550M USD
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Location / Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Type: Project Upgrade
Short description: Development of high-brightness upgrades for the National Synchrotron Light Source II.
Estimated Project Cost: around $1B USD
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Location / Institution: Huizhou, Guangdong, China
Type: New Project
Short description: CiADS is proposed as the world’s first megawatt-scale accelerator-driven transmutation research facility to achieve high-power coupled operation. Construction started in 2021 with a six-year construction period.
Estimated Project Cost: 2.8 billion RMB
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Project name: Isotope Pharmaceutical Production Platform based on Superconducting Accelerator Facility for Effective Therapy (IP-SAFE)
Location / Institution: Lanzhou New Area, Gansu Province
Type: New Project
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The project aims to achieve breakthroughs in key technologies for the mass production of alpha-emitting isotopes, such as radium-223 and actinium-225, for tumor therapy, together with integration and demonstration of core devices.
Estimated Project Cost: 0.5B RMB
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Location / Institution: RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama, Japan
Type: Project Upgrade
Short description: This project aims to increase the intensity of radioactive isotope beams by a factor of 20 compared with the current capability of the RIKEN RI Beam Factory (RIBF).
Reference: https://www.nishina.riken.jp/researcher/RIBFupgrade/RIBF_Upgrade_NCAC.pdf
Estimated Project Cost: ~$26,000 MYEN in total
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Location / Institution: Sayo-cho, Hyogo, Japan
Type: Project Upgrade
Short description: Upgrade project of SPring-8 SR facility.
Estimated Project Cost: About $300M
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Location / Institution: Rayong, Thailand
Type: New Project
Short description:
4th generation, 3 GeV synchrotron.
Estimated Project Cost: 490 M USD
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Location / Institution: Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
Type: Project Upgrade
Short description: ALBA II is the major upgrade of the ALBA Synchrotron Light Source, transforming it from a third-generation to a fourth-generation synchrotron. The project includes a new low-emittance storage ring, upgrades to beamlines, and new advanced experimental stations to strengthen research in materials science, life sciences, energy, nanotechnology, and industrial applications.
Estimated Project Cost: $170M Euros
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Location / Institution: Trieste, Italy
Type: Project Upgrade
Short description: Elettra 2.0 will replace the existing third-generation Elettra light source with a 2.4 GeV, low-emittance storage ring. The upgrade will expand and modernize beamline capabilities, especially in tender and hard X-rays, enabling major advances in X-ray spectroscopy, diffraction, coherent imaging, time-resolved experiments, nanotechnology, materials science, quantum materials, pharmaceuticals, and health sciences.
Estimated Project Cost: 170 Meuro
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Location / Institution: Berlin, Germany
Type: New Project
Short description: Synchrotron radiation source planned for 2031.
Estimated Project Cost: 1.2B Euros
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Location / Institution: DESY, Hamburg
Type: Project Upgrade
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The PETRA IV project at DESY, with approval foreseen within 2026.
Estimated Project Cost: 1.8 Bn Euros
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