Smashing the smasher
July 9th, 2009
Wired reports on the gradual dismantling of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Bevatron (above), which was once the world’s biggest atom smasher. It was built by the Atomic Energy Commission for $9 million in the early 1950s.
At the time, Popular Science called the Bevatron a “10,000-Ton Cracker for Invisible Nuts”
Read the full story here.
[Photo: Lawrence Berkeley Lab.]
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You might add that KQED’s local science program, QUEST, did a radio story and online slideshow about this as well: http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/goodbye-to-the-bevatron (Full disclosure: I helped produce this story).