Construction of bending magnet beamline at the APS for environmental studies. 1998 annual progress report

'Design and construction of a bending magnet beamline at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) by the Pacific Northwest Consortium-Collaborative Access Team (PNC-CAT). The beamline will be optimized for x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) studies with a major focus on environmental issues. The beamline will share the experimental facilities under development at the neighboring undulator based insertion device beamline. It will utilize these facilities for XAS of both bulk and surface samples, with spatial and elemental imaging, on toxic and radioactive samples. It will help meet the rapidly growing need for the application of these techniques to environmental problems. This report summarizes progress after 1-1/2 years of a 3-year project. The original scope of the project was to build a basic bending magnet beamline. Since the start of the project the authors have obtained addition funding from DOE-BES for the PNC-CAT activities. This has allowed us to expand the scope of the original proposed bending magnet beamline. Additional items now planned include a full sized experimental enclosure separate from the first optical enclosure (FOE), a white beam vertically collimating/focusing mirror providing improved flux and focusing, and enhanced experimental capabilities. Construction of the FOE and new experimental enclosure are complete along with full sector utilities, and the FOE is currently undergoing validation for its radiation integrity. The major beamline components are still being funded by the original EMSP project, and their status is described