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When President Reagan formally endorsed the superconducting supercollider (SSC) last January, it seemed likely that the $4.4 billion, 53-mile- circumferen ce particle accelerator would be completed on schedule in 1996. But the recent breakthroughs in superconductivity have raised some questions about the 10,000 powerful magnets needed to keep streams of protons on course as they speed around the huge ring...
Long a dream of the American particle-physics community, an accelerator the size of the proposed SSC would be 20 times as powerful as any now existing. It would dwarf the major U.S. accelerators -- Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., and another at Stanford University -- and would surpass even Europe's CERN collider, near Geneva. Formally endorsed by Ronald Reagan last January, the project is what Energy Secretary John Herrington calls a "momentous leap forward" in the exploration of matter and energy...
...states vying for the collider, the project means more than just a giant subterranean circle with a few buildings topside. After creating jobs at the outset for 4,500 construction workers, the SSC will attract a work force of 2,500 scientists, engineers and technicians, and provide a lure for federal and private research dollars. Says Syracuse University Particle Physicist Marvin Goldberg: "It's hard to think of a classier project...
...official site-selection process began last week, when the Energy Department issued invitations for proposals. But more than a dozen states had jumped the gun. So far Illinois has spent $4.5 million in developing its proposal for siting the SSC near Fermilab, and California has picked its spot, near Stockton. South Dakota has appropriated $900,000 to land the accelerator. Texas is promoting ten different sites for the tunnel and considering a $1 billion bond issue. Says Texas Governor Bill Clements of the SSC: "It could be bigger than NASA." Particle-physics fans are cropping up in the most unlikely...
...list of serious contenders may be quickly pared by the SSC's + requirements: 16,000 acres of donated land, a flow of between 500 and 2,200 gallons of water a minute and up to 250 megawatts of power, as well as accessibility to a major airport, so the world's scientists can fly in and out. According to Scientific American, the front runners in the accelerator SSC race appear to be Illinois, California, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Ohio and Utah...