Abstract
The House last week decided that the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) had to go. It voted by the largest margin yet, 282 to 143, to discontinue funding for SSC operations contained in the House-Senate conference report on the fiscal 1994 energy and water development appropriations bill—dooming the project. The House has tried to kill the SSC before, but the Senate has always come to the project's rescue (C&EN, June 28, page 7). This time it is gone for good. The House sent the appropriations bill (see page 20) back to the conference committee. At press time, this panel de cided to use the entire $640 million SSC budget to terminate the project. The bill is expected to go back to the House and Senate for a final vote this week. In an era of tight budgets, continually rising cost estimates for the 54-milelong particle accelerator, under construction at Waxahachie, Tex., soured many members of ...
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