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Article: $6 Billion Particle Accelerator Wins President's Endorsement;`Supercollider' Would Dwarf Existing Projects
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- The Washington Post
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- January 31, 1987
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President Reagan has formally approved construction of a $6
billion, 52-mile-long nuclear particle accelerator, Energy Secretary
John S. Herrington announced yesterday, calling the project a
"momentous leap forward" in the exploration of matter and energy.
The "superconducting supercollider," as the device is called,
would be 20 times more powerful than any existing accelerator and
capable of producing, on a tiny scale, the kind of energy levels that
many physicists believe existed at the moment of the universe's
creation.
"In high-energy physics, the development of the supercollider is
the equivalent of putting a man on the moon," Herrington said. "It
will have spinoffs, discoveries and ...