Jefferson Lab open house

[Scottie72]

For those living in Hampton Roads VA, Jefferson Labs is going to have an open house on Sat. April 16th from 9am till 2pm. It is great fun for the whole family there are going to be demos and tours of the accelerator tunnel. The new upgraded COntrol Room (where I work as an operator) will also be part of the tour.

GO to the site and there is a link in the upper right hand corner for the open house for more detail.

[slackmaster]

1. A friend of mine used to work at that lab - cool facility!

He was a staff scientist, working on the continuous electron beam.

[Scottie72]

2. cool!!

I am an operator there, so I might of known him. It is a very cool facility.

[Scottie72]

3. Now this in the headlines today

WASHINGTON -- The Jefferson Lab in Newport News could lose up to 10 percent of its work force and lab operations could be cut by a quarter if President Bush's proposed budget cuts are approved, the head of the lab's management group warned Monday.

Jerry Draayer, president of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, told Congress in written testimony that Bush's proposed cuts to the Department of Energy's nuclear physics programs would have major repercussions at the federally funded Newport News laboratory.

The 8 percent cut at Jefferson Lab could require layoffs of up to 10 percent of the its 700 employees, Draayer said. Most lab work would have to be cut by about 25 percent, delaying physics research being conducted by more than 1,100 scientists from 187 colleges and laboratories in 30 countries.

<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-86033sy0mar22,0,6101540.story?coll=dp-news-local-final>

My job is safe I am an operator there and it takes upwards of two years to be totally trained and competant in the control room. We have supposedly just hired two new operators.