Fastbreeder Nuke Plant over Nobel-winning Neutrino Study

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Report: Japan Neutrino Reactor in Doubt
Associated Press / Posted on Sat, Oct. 18, 2003TOKYO - A recommendation by a government panel not to fund an advanced physics research facility has drawn an angry outburst from a Japanese Nobel laureate and left the project's fate in doubt...The project, which calls for a state-of-the-art, $1.8 billion facility in eastern Japan, is the brainchild of Masatoshi Koshiba, an astrophysicist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for his work on subatomic particles called neutrinos....
But the Council for Science and Technology Policy...ranked the facility as the lowest priority for government spending next year, saying the price tag was hard to justify...Instead, energy projects such as a prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor should come first, the council said.