SOUTH KOREA is to help to build the US’s supercon ducting super collider
(SSC). Officials in the US will not say how much South Korea might give,
but the news will please the Department of Energy, which needs to raise
at least $1.7 billion for the project. The US hopes that up to 10 ‘international
partners’ will help with the $8 billion accelerator.
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