Located in an eighteen-hectare campus at Shanghai National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, on the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in the Pudong district.
[1] SSRF is operated by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP).
[2] The facility "has played a key role in revealing the inner mechanism of various cancers.
"[3] It has a circumference of 432 metres, and is designed to operate at 3.5 GeV, the highest energy of any synchrotron other than the Big Three facilities SPring-8 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, ESRF in Grenoble, France and APS at Argonne National labs, United States.
The synchrotron opened to universities, scientific institutes and companies for approved research in May 2009.