Friday, March 23, 2012

No LBNE

... or at least, not the way it has been envisioned.

The US Dept. of Energy has requested that LBNE be scaled down in light of flat budget for the Office of Science in the next foreseeable future.

At a projected $1.5 billion, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, is not affordable, says William Brinkman, director of DOE's Office of Science. So this week he asked physicists to come up with a cheaper way to do the same science.
This seems to be a common pattern lately. The FRIB project also initially was supposed to be twice as expensive, until it was scaled down. We shall see what kind of a plan the Fermilab/LBNE collaboration can come up with to salvage the project.

Zz.
at

1 comment:

  1. Brian MMarch 25, 2012 at 11:35 PM

    Obvious solution: physicists starts asking for twice as much as they need for every project

    ReplyDelete

The comments posted to this blog are MODERATED. All comments will require MY APPROVAL to be released, so please do NOT post multiple comments just because you do not see it appearing immediately!

All SPAM will never be approved for release in this blog, no matter how much you try to disguise it. CRACKPOTTERY and attempts at advertising your personal theory and website/blog will be treated in the same manner as unwanted SPAM.