NATION IN BRIEF : TEXAS : First Atom-Smasher Acreage Acquired
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The state bought its first 10-acre parcel of land for construction of the superconducting super collider, the mammoth $8-billion federal and state atom smasher project. More than 16,000 acres still have to be acquired from Ellis County landowners around Waxahachie, just south of Dallas, for the world’s largest scientific instrument. The collider will be a 54-mile underground ring, in which protons will be accelerated to nearly the speed of light in an attempt to find new clues to the fundamentals of matter.
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