Federal Research: Super Collider Estimates and Germany's Industrially Produced Magnets
RCED-91-94FS
Published: Feb 12, 1991. Publicly Released: Feb 25, 1991.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided: (1) a chronological history of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Superconducting Super Collider's (SSC) cost estimates; (2) information on Germany's experience with industrially produced superconducting magnets for its Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA); and (3) information on the SSC approach to developing and producing superconducting magnets.
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