The Event
Today's groundbreaking ceremony initiates construction of the first of the permanent buildings in the research complex of the National Accelerator Laboratory.
This building will house the Linear Accelerator, or Linac, which will serve as an important component of the 200 Billion Electron Volt Accelerator to be built on the 6,800-acre NAL site in DuPage and Kane Counties of Illinois. The Linac gives the protons the first boosts in energy and will take them to 200 Million Electron Volts, one-thousandth of their ultimate energy in the NAL Accelerator System.
The National Accelerator Laboratory will be the home of the world's most powerful proton accelerator. It is expected that the first 200 BeV beam of particles will be extracted from the main accelerator by the end of June, 1972.
The National Accelerator Laboratory is operated by the Universities Research Association, Inc., for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Program
From 2:30 p.m. at the Linac Site
WELCOME:
Robert R. Wilson, Director, National Accelerator Laboratory
SPEAKERS:
James T. Ramey, Commissioner, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
Norman F. Ramsey, President; Universities Research Association, Inc., Higgins Professor of Physics, Harvard University
James R. Sanford, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Chairman, N.A.L. Users' Organization
Gerald F. Tape, Commissioner, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
The Hon. Melvin H. Price, Member of Congress from Illinois; Member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy
GROUNDBREAKING:
Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
Robert R. Wilson
From 3:15 to 5 p.m. at N.A.L. Village:
After the ceremony at the groundbreaking site, guests are invited to return to the Laboratory Village for an Open House and Reception.
The Laboratory wishes to thank the Directors and the members of the Marmion Military Academy and the Batavia High School bands for their participation in the ceremonies.
