Details: Program Fee for Non-Proprietary priority Proposals

Program Fee is the fee to be paid by users of Non-Proprietary Priority Proposals.

What Non-Proprietary Priority Proposals is

Non-proprietary Priority proposals are intended for research proposals subject to pay the program fee to prioritize using the beamtime. And they are also granted an exemption from scientific review; only the necessity of SPring-8 as a research tool, ethics, technical feasibility, and the safety of the experiment are reviewed. These proposals are accepted upon payment of a program fee and are given priority consideration up to the beamtime limit set for each beamline used for general proposals.

* 1 shift is 8 hours and for any proposals that are allocated by the hour, the fees are charged by the hour.