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THE WEEK, Page 34HEALTH & SCIENCETaking the Ax to an $8.3 Billion Gizmo
The House slashes 1993 funding for the superconducting
supercollider
The Secrets of the Universe may have to wait. Last week the
House voted to ax most of next year's $483.7 million funding for
the superconducting supercollider, designed to be the world's
biggest atom smasher. The collider is meant to reveal the
mysteries of the sub-sub-atomic world by crashing particles
together inside an 86-km (54-mile) oval tunnel that will
literally surround the town of Waxahachie, Texas. But it also
bears the world's biggest price tag: $8.3 billion all told, and
rising. That was too super for even the House.
The Senate may differ, and the President certainly does,
so the collider could make a comeback. But mixed feelings on
the Hill could scare away the Japanese, whose hoped-for
investment in the project has already proved a tough sell. And
if it doesn't survive, the secrets of the universe could be
unraveled anyway: a European lab is working on a collider that
is nearly as powerful.