High-level environmental sustainability guidelines for large accelerator facilities

TL;DR

This paper offers high-level environmental sustainability guidelines for large accelerator facilities, aiming to integrate eco-friendly practices throughout their lifecycle from planning to decommissioning.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive set of sustainability guidelines and resource collections tailored for large accelerator facilities, emphasizing environmentally conscious design and operation.

Findings

Guidelines cover planning, construction, operation, and decommissioning stages.

Provides examples of existing sustainable practices.

Serves as a resource for embedding environmental impact reduction techniques.

Abstract

The proposed construction of new particle accelerator-based facilities in the coming decades -- and upgrades to existing facilities -- provides the unique opportunity to embed innovative environmental impact reduction techniques into their design. This living document provides high-level guidelines to improve environmental sustainability in the planning, construction, operational and decommissioning stages of large accelerator facilities. A collection of various resources is provided, with examples of some existing and suggested practices.