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Article: Fermilab collider boosted // Report tells $3.28 billion `smasher' saving
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 16, 1988
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Building the superconducting supercollider in Illinois will save
the federal government $3.28 billion, says a study released Monday by
a group pushing suburban Fermilab as the project's site.
"It's something different that no else can claim," said Donald
Perkins, chairman of the group, SSC for Fermilab, referring to the
cheaper cost of building in Illinois as opposed to that in the six
other states vying for the project.
The group said the SSC can be built more quickly and
inexpensively at Fermilab because Fermilab already has an operating
accelerator, a campus, a work force trained in this technology, and
computer software that can be applied readily to the SSC.
And, they contend, ...