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Nature 401, 195 (16 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/45612
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The French government must reveal the calculations behind its decision to drop plans for its own synchrotron.
British scientists arguing over where to build Diamond, the country's £175 million (US$280 million) next-generation synchrotron (see page 197), should spare a thought for their French colleagues. A decade of plans for a similar French machine, Soleil, were dashed last month by Claude Allègre, the science minister, who decided instead to invest one-third of the cost of Soleil in Diamond itself.
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