Hooray for STFC and their ing accounting errors!

http://www.stfc.ac.uk/pmc/prel/stfc/...ews161209.aspx

List of projects before cuts
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/resources/pdf/PPANNews161209.pdf

Pulling out of all but one major nuclear physics projects Great work including ALICE which actually requires the UK to be there in order to actually have a working trigger. Especially at a time when there's a possibility of fresh moves into nuclear power.

And there's the budget cuts due to the global financial problems to look forward to next time!

STFC, a great bunch of guys.


Also that they've already pulled out of most ILC stuff anyway


Professor Brian Foster (Head of Particle Physics at the University of Oxford): "It is only 10 months ago that Gordon Brown delivered the Romanes lecture at Oxford and said: "Some say that now is not the time to invest, but the bottom line is that the downturn is no time to slow down our investment in science but to build more vigorously for the future." These cuts give the lie to those fine words. This is a sad day for British science: the Prime Minister should hang his head in shame."

Professor Ken Peach (Director of John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science and Co-Director of the Particle Therapy Cancer Research Institute): "These projects address longer-term science opportunities that would keep the UK at the forefront of science, including the ambition to host large-scale international projects in the UK and to attract the associated inward investment and support for UK industry; these cuts show that STFC cannot be trusted with stewardship of the UK's science base."

Professor Mark Lancaster (Head of Particle Physics at UCL): "A lost generation of students will be created who are denied the opportunity to do a PhD and cutting-edge science"