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Tuesday was a day for debate over what to do with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s first ever particle accelerator, the Bevatron. The Bevatron was last used in the early ’90s, and has since been replaced with bigger, faster and more explosively priced accelerators—that means it hasn’t done anything but collect dust and deadly omegatron radiation (just kidding—dust isn’t attracted to particle accelerators).
What to do with Old Bev, now that it’s giving off a faint radioactive glow? Well, the biggest concern is that in order to remove it from the laboratory, a good 4,700 one-way trips would be needed to move it—and that leaves quite a bit of room for mistakes.
But on the other hand, at least the Bevatron isn’t causing unfounded apocalyptic fears. Yay science!
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Plan to Dismantle Bevatron Stirs Debate [Daily Cal]
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