Accelerator in Mississippi

An accelerator intended to provide intense radiation for solid‐state studies is to be installed at the University of Mississippi in September, according to a recent announcement by the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Construction was started last month on a building to house the machine, which will supply 3‐Mev electrons or positive ions at beam currents of 10 ma, making it possible to obtain as many as $1013$ neutrons per second.