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Energy Secretary's Priorities Include San Francisco-Area Research Projects.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003

By Andrea Widener, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 11--Bay Area research labs got a big boost Monday when the Secretary of Energy unveiled his priorities for major research projects his agency hopes to fund over the next two decades.

Among the agency's 28 top priorities are a major computer expansion and an experiment examining the expanding universe that could be housed at Lawrence Berkeley Lab and a powerful X-ray laser planned for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Those sites and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory are major participants or beneficiaries of a half dozen other projects that range from protein biology to high-energy physics to high-tech microscopes.

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