Big Science has a Twenty-Year Plan

Posted by jamie on Friday November 14, 2003 @04:40PM from the four-times-five dept.

Earlier this week, Energy Secretary Spence Abraham laid out the Office of Science's 20-year plan for building and upgrading the U.S.'s "Big Science" facilities. Twenty-eight programs got the nod, in all. The top priorities -- fusion, and a massive supercomputer. Other goals on the wish list include studying dark energy, high-speed atomic-scale imaging with an electron laser, and fulfilling several particle-physics dreams, including a collider to rival CERN's LHC. Here's the press release and the full list (PDF). Your grandchildren may write school papers on the discoveries these tools will make...

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Re:What didn't make the list? by beamdriver · 2003-11-14 18:09 · Score: 3, Informative

SNS is a way to produce high energy neutrons for different types of scientific research. Protons are fired at a liquid mercury target producing the neutrons. It's an alternative way to do neutron research without a nuclear reactor. Some of the staff from my lab are working on the project. It's pretty neat.
The what and why of the SNS