Published : 2024-12-12
On December 12, 2010, the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (中國錦屏地下實驗室), located in southwest China's Sichuan Province, was inaugurated and put into use.
The Jinping Underground Laboratory is China's first extremely deep underground laboratory and the world's deepest underground laboratory, located at the Jinping Hydropower Station on the Yalong River in Liangshan, Sichuan.
With 2,400 metres of rock overburden, the underground laboratory is the one with the deepest rock overburden in the world.
The extremely thick rock serves as a natural barrier, reducing the radiation received inside the laboratory to one hundred-millionth of the ground level.
Additionally, the lab is equipped with up to seven layers of protection, capable of shielding almost all known radiation, making it the place with the least radiation, the least interference impurities, and the "cleanest" site in the world.
The important work of the Jinping Underground Laboratory is to search for dark matter. Its construction marks that China has a world-class clean, low-radiation research platform, capable of independently carrying out international cutting-edge fundamental research projects such as dark matter detection.
