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Rare Isotope Accelerator Delayed At Least 5 Years
U.S.
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has informed Congress
that the $1 billion Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA)
has been delayed five years. Bodman said R&D on RIA
would continue with $5 to $6M budgeted per year until a
preliminary engineering design could be prepared,
hopefully by 2011. RIA is intended to explore the
fields of nuclear structure and astrophysics, areas of
basic research that are considered central to applied
fields such as energy, security, and medicine.
"There
are major opportunities here upon which we are not going
to capitalize,” commented an official close to the
project. “It is absolutely ironic that everybody in the
world can see benefits to building this kind of
physics—which has considerable potential benefits to
society—and the U.S. cannot.”
Witek
Nazarewicz, Scientific Director for Holifield
Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Lab,
reacted with a mixture of disappointment and alarm to
Bodman’s announcement: “I do not believe that this
nation can afford to outsource basic nuclear science.”
Also in Article: RIA FY06 Budget Problems – Request
for Proposals Canceled – RIA Reviewed at White House
Request – Senators Surprised and Alarmed – U.S.
Physicists Criticize Outsourcing of Basic Research –
Funding Competition Heats Up – Domestic Facilities May
Have to Compete with ITER – RIA’s Superconducting LINAC
Not a Technical Risk
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