item for our field. Our subcommittee recommended further following on the long-range plan, that a structured program of research should be pursued in electromagnetic research, with a 4-GeV accelerator being the flagship and some smaller facilities be upgraded in the capability for lower energy research to complement the work that is going on.

The heavy-ion collider brings us into a new, possibly entirely new, realm of physics where the distinctions between protons and neutrons disappear and where there is a possibility of a phase transition of muclednic or hadronic matter into something which has been termed a quark/gluon plasma. We are most excited in pursuing that scientific opportunity, but it's after the 4-GeV electron accelerator in priority.

We emphasize the importance of graduate training, of training new students and new scientists. This has been echoed a number of times this morning and all I can do is reiterate the statement that it is important not only for the health of the science, but also for the national welfare, that people trained in sciences such as nuclear science continue to make a major impact on the whole fabric of our society and must be an integral, continuing resource to a high technology economy such as ours.

The budgets continue to be tight. We did an historical perspective of the budget in the long-range plan, and the first transparency-this is the support in investment in basic research in nuclear science over the past 15 years. There was a decline in the late 1960's, early 1970's, then a slower decline throughout the 1970's; and at the time of the long-range plan there was some source of optimism. The red line indicates the present fiscal year 1985 and the projected fiscal year 1986 budgets.

We regret that this implies further reduction in utilization of our facilities, delays, and compromises in instrumentation. We regret that the construction of CEBAF is being delayed, and we also regret that a facility which is of considerable interest to our science, which was recommended by the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, the booster to the AGS accelerator, has been delayed.

Budgets are tight, but our science must go on. I am in complete accord with the statements that were expressed this morning about various support in various areas of research, but I would like to show a few examples of ongoing activity. Things are happening and we are doing the best we can with limited resources.

One construction project has been completed in this last year, and that is the ATLAS facility at Argonne which uses an entirely new technology, superconductivity, for acceleration of particles. Superconductivity has been used now for a number of years for magnets, to contain particles in their orbits, in high energy physics in particular. This facility uses superconductivity to accelerate particles in a highly efficient, precision way. This accelerator is being completed on schedule and on budget, and the first beams are expected this spring. It is also a technology that has applications and is being copied at a number of universities, including Kansas State University, Florida State University, and a number of universities abroad.

Another small project that has been completed is an electron injector at the High Energy Physics Laboratory at SLAC for nuclear physics research. This is a very modest attempt to touch on a small fraction of the physics which we hope to address with the full 4GeV electronic accelerator when that becomes completed. This has been completed and is ready for research.

The university upgrades are underway, particularly two of them in the DOE program at the University of Washington at Seattle, and at Yale, universities which are mainstays of our program in graduate training.