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at the Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory and at the Experi- 

 mental Breeder Reactor II at Argonne National Laboratory and inter- 

 national operational funding of the Loss-of-Fluid Test Facility (LOFT) 

 at Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. 



Antarctic Research and Biotechnology 



Although not big science in the classical sense, these two areas 

 are addressed in this report in chapters XI and XII, respectively, 

 for the reasons discussed there. Although no big science facili- 

 ties meeting the $25 million criterion have been identified in either 

 area, research support in Antarctica is broadly multidisciplinary, 

 reflects the involvement of a wide variety of institutions and Fe- 

 deral agencies, and includes substantial international cooperation. 

 Biotechnology is included for discussion because of its potential for 

 developing big science facilities in the near-term future. Because 

 of the commercial nature of much biotechnology, however, perhaps 

 much of the potential international cooperation in that area would 

 be carried out by multinational corporations. 



