When the US Congress voted to
cancel the Superconducting
Super Collider (SSC) last
year, a lot of money had already
been sunk into
the project. Now
with the biggest
technological
project in science
definitely dead, the
state of Texas -
which had given 650
ha of land and
about US $500
million to the project
- is trying to auction off some
remnants of the SSC (Science, Vol 269).
A US $65 million
linear accelerator and about
14,000 square metres
of office space are
to be auctioned.
The other major
contributor, the
department of
energy, has written
off its US $2
bilhon investment.
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