AUSTRALIA is being urged to spend almost A$10 million (nearly Pounds
sterling 5 million) on measures to give Australian scientists access to
three overseas research facilities. The Australian Science and Technology
Council said in a report published last week that the costs of setting up
such facilities in Australia would be prohibitive.
The report, Small Country-Big Science, called on the government to contribute
1.5 per cent of the annual operating budget of the Institut Laue-Langevin
in France to give Australian scientists access to its neutron beam facility.
51¶¯Âþs should also be sent to the synchrotron light source at Tsukuba,
Japan, and to the particle accelerators at CERN in Switzerland.
