Report Slams SLAC's Safety Practices

摘要

Management at the Stanford Linear Accelera-tor Center (SLAC) routinely disregarded safety regulations in order to keep the scientific results coming. That's the conclusion of a Department of Energy (DOE) investigation into a serious electrical accident this fall at DOE's high-energy physics facility in Menlo Park, California (Science, 29 October, p. 788). The accident has led to the indefinite shutdown of the lab's accelerators, causing SLAC to lose ground to a Japanese labo-ratory engaged in the same type of research.