US reveals physics wish-list in bid for scientific frontier

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: US reveals physics wish-list in bid for scientific frontier
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Nature 426, 108 (13 November 2003); doi:10.1038/426108b
US reveals physics wish-list in bid for scientific frontier

GEOFF BRUMFIEL

[WASHINGTON] It must have felt as though Christmas had come early for US
physicists this week, when the Department of Energy announced a list of 28
scientific facilities that it wants to build in the next 20 years. But it
remains to be seen if the department's Office of Science can raise the
billions of dollars needed to complete the projects.

At the top of the department's near-term priorities is the international
fusion project, ITER, which the United States rejoined this year. Next is
a proposal for a major scientific computing facility, to house
supercomputers more powerful than anything currently available for
non-military research. Then — equally ranked — come a rare-isotope
accelerator, a satellite to probe the Universe's dark energy, a high-power
X-ray light source, and a facility that would produce and tag proteins for
research worldwide.

"This is our plan to keep the United States at the scientific frontier,"
says Spencer Abraham, the energy secretary, who announced the wish-list at
a 10 November lunch at the National Press Club in Washington DC.
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