The laboratory was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base.
In 2013 alone, its reported budget was $700m of tax-payer money…
… though the real figure is probably much higher when you factor in black project budgets…
So all in all, a pretty important facility then.
The major facilities at Brookhaven labs include:
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which was designed to research quark–gluon plasma. Until 2009 it was the world’s most powerful heavy ion collider. It is the only collider of spin-polarized protons.Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), it is used for the study of nanoscale materials.National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, a particle accelerator that was used in three of the lab’s Nobel prizes.Accelerator Test Facility, generates, accelerates and monitors particle beams.Tandem Van de Graaff, once the world’s largest electrostatic accelerator.New York Blue Gene supercomputer, an 18 rack Blue Gene/L and a 2 rack Blue Gene/P massively parallel supercomputer that involves a cooperative effort between Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University. It is the world’s 5th fastest supercomputer and the world’s 2nd most powerful for open access research as of 2008.So basically, some pretty serious tech, with huge focus on nano-materials, particle accelerators, and particle beams…
Now you’re probably thinking something like…
SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE TWIN TOWERS
Let me show you…
Have you ever seen that there were hundreds of melted cars near the twin towers on 9/11…
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