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Article: $4.4 B super collider gets go-ahead.
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- February 7, 1987
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$4.4 B Super Collider gets go-ahead
President reagan last week approvedconstruction of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), which will be the world's most advanced particle accelerator. Although some 40 states have expressed interest in becoming home to the $4.4 billion project, Energy Secretary John S. Herrington says, "We have made no determination as to where the [SSc] will be sited -- and there is no front-runner."
SSC would employ roughly 10,000 superconductingmagnets to focus and guide two beams of 20-trillion-electron-volt (20 TeV) protons in opposite directions through a 52-mile, racetrack-shaped underground tunnel (SN: 9/22/84, p.181; ...