Brookhaven National Laboratory's Associate Director for Light Sources, Steven Dieker, talks to Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the National Synchrotron Light Source II, the lab's newest facility.

The NSLS II will be a new state-of-the-state-art, medium-energy electron storage ring (three billion electron-Volts) designed the deliver world-leading intensity and brightness, and will produce x-rays more than 10,000 time brighten than the current NSLS. NSLS-II research will focus on some of our most important challenges at the nanoscale: clean and affordable energy; self-assembly; molecular electronics; and high temperature superconductors.