With the demolition of the Bevatron, a chapter of the Bay Area's high-level physics research comes to a close. By 1954, ten years after the first atomic bombs leveled Hisroshima and Nagasaki, many of ...

BERKELEY, California—What was once the world’s biggest atom smasher will soon be nothing more than a collection of old photos and the dust beneath the next big science machine. Lawrence Berkeley ...

Environmental activists and North Berkeley residents told Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory officials Thursday night to leave intact an unused building full of toxic and low-level nuclear wastes ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has issued a Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed demolition of the decommissioned Bevatron accelerator and the structure housing it . The ...

In a move striking some as ironic, longtime critics of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are calling for the historical preservation of a huge, and radioactive, particle accelerator that the lab ...

BERKELEY — The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory wants to raze the long-dormant Bevatron, but one city peace group has other ideas about how to put the historic particle accelerator to use.

Fearing adverse health effects related to toxic debris from dismantling the Bevatron and the associated Building 51 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and trucking the materials through the ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory plans to tear down its historic Bevatron particle accelerator, which was instrumental in discoveries that led to four Nobel Prizes. Built under the direction of E ...

Until it was shut down in 1993, a 10,000-ton magnetic doughnut known as the Bevatron smashed atoms under tight security for 39 years in the Berkeley hills. It was one of the giant machines that ...

On Charter Hill above Berkeley, Calif, a strange and monstrous machine, the AEC’s bevatron,* was slowly coming to life last week. Housed in a circular building 75 feet high is a steel doughnut 135 ...