Could defense accelerator be a windfall for science?
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.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 146529
- Journal Information:
- Science, Vol. 269, Issue 5226; Other Information: PBD: 18 Aug 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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