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Article: REAGAN TO SEEK $6 BILLION TO BUILD MOST POWERFUL PARTICLE ACCELERATOR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 31, 1987
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A proposed $6 billion particle accelerator, designed to
ensure US leadership through the 1990s in the search for the
fundamental structure of matter, won support yesterday from the
Reagan administration.
Energy Secretary John S. Herrington announced that President
Reagan has decided to seek funding for what would be the world's
most powerful accelerator, the Superconducting Supercollider, when
it is completed in 1996.
The SSC, as it is known, has topped the list of priorities
forUS particle physicists for several years, though there has been
debate over its usefulness in other scientific quarters.
Physics researchers say the huge facility, which would collide
constituents of atomic ...