China approves supercollider

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

This supercollider is now the 4th in the world, all on European 
and Asian soil. Just another sad example of US technology going 
nowhere!

   BEIJING, Feb 16 (AFP) - China's first large nuclear fusion  
installation has passed appraisal from the nation's top physicists and
will shortly go into operation, the China Daily reported Mpnday. 
   The HT-7 Superconductive Tokamak was built in Hefei, capital of
eastern Anhui province in 1995 by the Chinese Academy of Science
Plasma Physics Institute. 
   It is the world's fourth such installation with similar sites in
France, Russia and Japan, the newspaper said. 
   It is used to accelerate particles at ultra-high speeds with the
aim of forcing two atoms to join together and create a nuclear fusion.
    China has a second nuclear fusion research centre in 
Chengdu, southwest China which focuses on theoretical research. 
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