I got forwarded a press release from the GSI / FAIR facility in Germany describing a "major fire" which happened there yesterday. The fire happened in the "GSI" part - the longstanding facility which has been conducting research in nuclear physics for many years (the SI in GSI is Schwerion = heavy ion). FAIR is the linked site where they are building a new facility, which is apparently unaffected by the fire.
The main piece of specific information in the press release is the UNILAC linear accelerator building is "severely affected" by the fire. This is perhaps the worst bit of the facility to have a problem with, as it is the starting point for the rest of it. The linear accelerator takes ions from a source and accelerates them to then be passed to all sorts of other beam lines. No UNILAC means no beams at any part of the facility. I don't know just how bad things there are, but on the face of it, the news sounds bad.
Here's a diagram showing the UNILAC provide beam for the rest of the GSI facility, and how the GSI facility then sends a beam to the new FAIR project built next to it
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