If Budget Woes Continue, Panel Says DOE Should Shut Last U.S. Collider
Adrian Cho
This week a committee of nuclear scientists recommended that the cash-strapped Department of Energy shut down the last grand U.S. atom-smasher, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. The closing would be necessary to free up money for a new nuclear physics facility, but fears remain that any trade-off will lead to a massive contraction of U.S. nuclear physics.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6119/498.summary
We NEED that money for more 350-million-dollar stealth fighters and inoperative Navy littoral vessels! Can't let the terrorists win! 
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I knew people who worked there. I toured the facility as a researcher at Fermilab's sister lab, Argonne National Lab, in the 70's. Seeing some of the inner workings of such a device is -- in the only word that works in this context -- awesome.
The Cockcroft-Walton injector alone inspires awe.
This starts the whole thing going!
(BTW, it's big!)
that we are not becoming Greece, but rather North Korea?
