Budget includes three centers for synchrotron radiation

The growing interest in using synchrotron radiation has led to a shortage of facilities for such experiments. Former President Ford's budget request for FY 1978, submitted to Congress in mid‐January, calls for building dedicated sources at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin and improving the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project. SSRP operates symbiotically with SPEAR, which is primarily used as a high‐energy physics storage ring.