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The US Department of Energy isexperted to endorse plans of build-ing a US $3 billion particle accelerator. The primary purpose of theaccelerator will be to produce tri-tium for nuclear weapons (Nature,Vol 376, July 20, 1995).
But the facility will have anotherspin-off. it will be the world's premiser source of neutrons. This willbe good news to many researcherswho have been bemoaning the cancellation of the Advanced NeutronSource, a US $2.8 billion researchreactor, last February. The tritiumproducing accelerator could be usedas a source of neutrons for studying material and biomolecules.