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Title: Could defense accelerator be a windfall for science?

Abstract

This article describes the possible ramifications of a decision about the production of tritium by Energy Secretary Hazel O`Leary. Sources indicate a two-pronged strategy will be proposed: spending $5 million a year to study the possibility of buying and converting a commercial nuclear reactor and nearly $50 million to begin developing a giant tritium producing accelerator - the APT or Accelerator Production of Tritium. The decision will provide years of APT development work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, but will disappoint backers of a huge special-purpose reactor to be built in South Carolina and proposed as a alternative tritium source. In addition the possibility of a giant new accelerator could offer some dangerous consolation for researchers still becoming the loss of the Advanced Neutron Source.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
146529
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 269; Journal Issue: 5226; Other Information: PBD: 18 Aug 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; TRITIUM; PRODUCTION; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; US DOE; POLITICAL ASPECTS; ACCELERATOR FACILITIES; CONSTRUCTION; LANL

Citation Formats

Weisman, J. Could defense accelerator be a windfall for science?. United States: N. p., 1995. Web. doi:10.1126/science.269.5226.914.
Weisman, J. Could defense accelerator be a windfall for science?. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.269.5226.914
Weisman, J. 1995. "Could defense accelerator be a windfall for science?". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.269.5226.914.
@article{osti_146529,
title = {Could defense accelerator be a windfall for science?},
author = {Weisman, J},
abstractNote = {This article describes the possible ramifications of a decision about the production of tritium by Energy Secretary Hazel O`Leary. Sources indicate a two-pronged strategy will be proposed: spending $5 million a year to study the possibility of buying and converting a commercial nuclear reactor and nearly $50 million to begin developing a giant tritium producing accelerator - the APT or Accelerator Production of Tritium. The decision will provide years of APT development work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, but will disappoint backers of a huge special-purpose reactor to be built in South Carolina and proposed as a alternative tritium source. In addition the possibility of a giant new accelerator could offer some dangerous consolation for researchers still becoming the loss of the Advanced Neutron Source.},
doi = {10.1126/science.269.5226.914},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/146529}, journal = {Science},
number = 5226,
volume = 269,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 1995},
month = {Fri Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 1995}
}