 Since late August 2006, CERN has directed a beam of muon neutrinos from the CERN SPS accelerator to the Gran Sasso lab, 730 km away, where they are detected by the OPERA and ICARUS detectors, in a study of neutrino oscillations that will improve on the results of the Fermilab to MINOS experiment.In May 2010, Lucia Votano, Director of the Gran Sasso laboratories, announced that "[t]he OPERA experiment has reached its first goal