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$1B project at Brookhaven Lab is ahead of schedule

Quick ReadThe National Synchrotron Light Source II, an X-ray machine, will enhance research in medicine, environmental sciences, biology and physics when it is finished in 2014.

National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National

Photo credit: Brookhaven National Lab | National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National Lab

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A nearly $1-billion project to build what will be the world's brightest light - at Brookhaven National Laboratory - is just about halfway completed and slightly ahead of schedule, lab officials said earlier this week.

The scientific, technology and business worlds are eagerly awaiting the completion of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, an X-ray machine that will be the world's brightest...

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