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Pictorial Tour of World's Longest Linear Accelerator

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the always-with-the-measuring-contest dept.

Wired has a great pictorial tour of their recent visit to Stanford University's linear accelerator, the longest in the world. The accelerator has been the vehicle upon which three Nobel Prizes were earned and a the next big project will boast an electron laser roughly 10 billion times more powerful than existing x-ray sources.

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  1. Re:SLAC is great, but... by bcdm · · Score: 5, Informative

    125 staff members at SLAC have been let go this year (so far), and 200 projected layoffs at Fermilab by the end of the summer. Wired has the fuller scoop.

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  2. Microwave ovens do *NOT* have a klystron inside. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Picture 8 has a description that starts with: "Your microwave oven has a klystron inside" which is wrong. All modern microwave ovens have a cavity magnetron inside not a klystron.