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- Subject: FYI #3: Russia Will Collaborate With US on the SSC
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:55:31 GMT
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- Public Information Division
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- Russia Will Collaborate With US on the SSC
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- FYI No. 3, January 8, 1993
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- On January 6, the Department of Energy and the Russian Federation
- Ministry of Atomic Energy signed an agreement to collaborate on the
- Superconducting Super Collider. According to Secretary of Energy
- Admiral James Watkins, the Russians will help with the "design,
- engineering and production of two of the project's booster
- accelerators."
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- Under the agreement, six Russian labs have signed
- laboratory-to-laboratory pacts with the SSC Lab in Waxahachie,
- Texas. The Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk
- will design, engineer and build conventional magnets for the SSC's
- Low Energy Booster. The Radiotechnical Institute in Moscow will
- build quadrupole, or focusing, magnets for the Medium Energy
- Booster. A DOE press release on the collaboration says that "these
- agreements represent a potential total savings to the US of more
- than $100 million as an offset to the project's baseline cost."
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- Other Russian labs will collaborate with the SSC Lab on
- experimental detectors, including the Institute for High Energy
- Physics in Protvino, the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, the
- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, and the Institute of
- Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow.
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- To pacify critics of the $8.3 billion megaproject, DOE has promised
- that a significant fraction of SSC funding will come from foreign
- sources. Both India and China have already joined collaborations.
- India is working on the design and fabrication of beam-line
- transfer magnets, correction magnets and radio-frequency equipment.
- The Institute for High Energy Physics in Beijing has agreed to
- build the cavity-coupled Linac, part of the SSC's linear
- accelerator. While DOE has been actively wooing Japan for several
- years, no agreements have yet been announced.
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- The SSC went through some troubled times this summer when, to prove
- its budget-cutting ability, the House voted 232-181 to terminate
- it. However, the Senate and House-Senate conferees both approved
- the project, and the House finally agreed to fiscal year 1993
- funding of $517 million.
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- What is in store for the SSC for fiscal 1994 is not clear. While
- President-elect Clinton has said he supports the collider, Vice
- President-elect Gore voted against it in the fiscal 1992 budget
- (Gore did not vote on it this year.)
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- It will probably be mid-March until the Clinton Administration
- provides the details of its plans for the SSC in its fiscal 1994
- budget submission to Congress. While the White House is supposed to
- submit a budget in February, Clinton is expected to ask for an
- extension.
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