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Nature 452, 530 (3 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452530c; Published online 2 April 2008

Spanish funds will finance Bilbao's spallation bid

Juan Urrutia1

  1. Executive Commission of ESS-Bilbao, Gran Vía 35, 48009 Bilbao, Spain

As the president of the executive commission of the proposed European Spallation Source (ESS) neutron-science facility in Bilbao, Spain, I appreciate the comments in your Editorial 'The big picture' (Nature 450, 586; 2007) about European endeavours to construct and finance the ESS. Although the commission acknowledges that there is a tendency in other countries to use European funds to finance such scientific projects, this does not apply in our case.