Work underway on 7-billion volt accelerator for atomic energy research program at Harwell.
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has announced that Britain is building a seven-billion electron volt proton synchrotron for its nuclear research program.
He said the National Institute for Research Into Nuclear Science has agreed on a design and that work is already underway. The particle accelerator will cost about $21 million.
The machine is designed to produce a beam of atomic particles more dense than that from any other accelerator in the world. It will have a 6,000-ton magnet in the form of a ring 120 ft in diameter.
Scheduled for completion in two years, the machine will be constructed on a site adjacent to the Atomic Energy Authority's research establishment at Harwell.
