Fermi Lab is about 25 minutes from me.....a huge complex in a suburban Chicago campus/park setting with deer running around the wooded part of the vast acreage.
The Lab has money to operate till September. A request was put in to the feds for $100 million to keep the Tevatron running for three more years.....but the request was denied by the Department of Energy.
The Lab hope to reassign the major employees but lots of the more peripheral ones will lose their jobs....and the merchants and businesses in the adjacent town of Batavia will take a big hit.
Leni
Is there no reason that none of this stuff can ever be funded privately?