March 23, 2009
Secretary Chu, during a visit to DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, announces $1.2 billion in new science funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for major construction, laboratory infrastructure, and research efforts sponsored across the nation by the DOE Office of Science. Among the approved projects (pdf) are: $150 million to accelerate ongoing construction on the National Synchrotron Light Source-II at the Brookhaven lab, $123 million for major construction, modernization, and needed decommissioning of laboratory facilities at various DOE national laboratories, $65 million to accelerate construction of the 12-Billion Electron Volt Upgrade of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, $277 million for Energy Frontier Research Centers, to be awarded on a competitive basis, $90 million for other core research, providing support for graduate students, postdocs, and Ph.D. scientists across the nation, $69 million to create a national scale, prototype 100-gigabit per second data network linking research centers across the nation, $330 million for operations and equipment at Office of Science major scientific user facilities, used annually by over 20,000 researchers, and $125 million for needed infrastructure improvements across nine DOE national laboratories.