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Argonne National Laboratory's 'Advanced Photon Source'--Which Works like a Giant X-Ray Microscope--Is Getting a Major Upgrade
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(OPEN):
ONE OF THE MOST-COMPLEX MACHINES IN THE WORLD IS GETTING AN
815-MILLION-DOLLAR UPGRADE: THE "ADVANCED PHOTON
SOURCE", AT THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S "ARGONNE NATIONAL
LABORATORY"--OUTSIDE CHICAGO--WORKS LIKE A STADIUM-SIZED X-RAY MICROSCOPE.
AND, DOCTOR STEPHEN STREIFFER ["STRIFE-FUR"]--THE
DIRECTOR OF THE "ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCE"--SAYS THAT THE UPGRADE WILL ALLOW SCIENTISTS TO MAKE PIVOTAL DISCOVERIES, IN MANY
FIELDS...
(STREIFFER):
"SO, WE'RE JUST COMING THROUGH THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF
'APOLLO 11'; THIS IS A SIMILAR MOMENT FOR U-S SCIENCE. THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT YOU HAVE WITH A NEW MACHINE LIKE THE
'A-P-S UPGRADE' WILL TRANSFORM THE WAY THAT WE LIVE--AND THE WAY THAT WE
THINK--EXACTLY THE WAY THAT THE MOON-LANDINGS TRANSFORMED THE WAY THAT WE THOUGHT, IN THE
19-60'S."
(BRIDGE):
DOCTOR CHRIS FALL IS THE
DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S "OFFICE OF
SCIENCE"...
(FALL):
"I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE UPGRADE, BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY GONNA HELP ENSURE THAT THE U-S REMAINS AT THE FOREFRONT OF SCIENCE, FOR DECADES.
THE EXTREME LEVEL OF DETAILS THAT THE UPGRADE PROVIDES IS GONNA OPEN UP NEW FRONTIERS IN BASIC
SCIENCE--WHICH CAN ENABLE DISCOVERIES ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF RESEARCH, FROM MICROELECTRONICS TO POLYMERS TO QUANTUM."
(CLOSE):
EVERY YEAR, MORE THAN FIVE-THOUSAND RESEARCHERS CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS AT THE
"ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCE". TO LEARN MORE, VISIT "A-N-L"-DOT-GOV.
