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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 |
LEAD South Dakota is not the only state in the country that is making investments in the prospect of doing science at the former Homestake gold mine, one scientist said recently.
Bob Svoboda of the University of California-Davis, one of the chief scientists for the Large Baseline Neutrino Experiment, which is one of the main experiments for the DUSEL proposal, said he watched with interest this year as the state Legislature struggled with allocating $5.4 million in funding to the Sanford Lab. The funding, which was voted down twice and approved after a third vote, will carry the Sanford Lab operations through May, when the federal government could decide whether it will build a deep underground science and engineering laboratory. It wasn’t until the federal government said it could step forward with funds in May, assuring the Legislature that the $5.4 million would be one-time money, that the funding was approved.
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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 |
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Employees, contractors, visitors all committed to safety as first priority at lab
LEAD — Amidst the science, funding, politics and construction for the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory there is one priority that rises above all of the rest — safety.
And with the West Virginia coal mine disaster fresh in mind, officials say safety is the one aspect of the project that never gets compromised. From ensuring all employees receive the proper safety equipment for going underground, to installing underground sensors for gasses and training a core group of about 30 people for emergency response, Tom Regan, operations safety officer said Sanford Lab officials do everything they can to ensure a safe environment for all employees, contractors and visitors. And, Regan gives the workforce at the Sanford Lab all the credit for maintaining a safe atmosphere at the former Homestake Gold Mine.
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
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By Chet Brokaw
Associated Press
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — An underground science lab being developed thousands of feet underground in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota's Black Hills aims to boost research and education worldwide, Gov. Mike Rounds said Wednesday.
Rounds spoke in a video link to the Internet2 conference in Virginia dealing with improving the capacity and technology of the Internet. Scientists nearly a mile underground in the former Homestake gold mine also described how it is being converted into laboratories that will conduct research into physics, biology, geology and other subjects.
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