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Nature 420, 724 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420724a

Neutrino projects are poles apart, says panel

Geoff Brumfiel

It's not just distance that separates the two neutrino projects planned by the United States — their scientific objectives are clearly different too, according to a review by the National Academy of Sciences.The report was commissioned earlier this year by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to clarify the degree of overlap between the proposed IceCube neutrino detector in Antarctica and the National Underground Science Laboratory (NUSL), which would probably be built at Lead, South Dakota (see Nature 417, 5; 200210.1038/417005b