{"id":4220,"date":"2013-11-05T20:47:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2013-11-05T20:47:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:47:56","slug":"nuclear-reactor-to-help-pay-for-parks-town-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=4220","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Reactor to Help Pay for Parks, Town Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a>Forrest City Developers have finally found a solution for the uninhabited prairie in the Eastbridge neighborhood bordering Aurora that was supposed to be a lush greenbelt park in the tradition of Stapleton parks: atom smashing.\nAnd to boot, the project will help fund the long awaited Eastbridge Town Center, as well as help to bring traffic to its merchants.\n\nStanford University\u2019s Stanford Linear Accelerator, or SLAC, has agreed to jointly develop a second \u201catom smasher\u201d with CU Denver\u2019s Anschutz medical campus.\n\u201cColorado and California are increasingly developing ties that bind,\u201d says Forrest City President Phil Dargossi. \u201cWith CU Boulder entering a Pac 12 conference that includes Cal Berkeley, Stanford and the Southern California schools, Colorado is taking the next step in its economic development. We are proud to be a part of that new tradition here in Stapleton.\u201d\nForrest City is providing a $4 million equity investment in the public-private partnership dubbed the Stapleton Linear Accelerator (SLAC II) that includes Stanford University (a private university) and CU Denver.\n\u201cWhat makes this project uniquely suited to the Eastbridge parcel are it\u2019s dimensions \u2014 it\u2019s long and narrow, just like the Linear Accelerator itself,\u201d Dargossi explains.\nFor residents wondering what an atom smasher is and does, it doesn\u2019t really matter.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t hear a thing,\u201d exclaims Dargossi. \u201cIt\u2019s really quite amazing. The physics and technology residents will be exposed to will be very exciting. This facility will be a real asset to the four DSST campuses in the Stapleton neighborhood as well. Think of the possibilities for field trips and internships. And the jobs, maybe a thousand of em\u2019.\u201d\nThe project involves digging a 75-foot deep, two-mile long trench, in which the accelerator will be encased in a concrete structure.\n\u201cThis one\u2019s going to be entirely underground,\u201d a giddy Dargossi explains. \u201cNo one will even know it\u2019s there!\u201d\nThe research and development possibilities are limitless \u2014 particle physics, x-ray science, chemistry and energy sciences.\n\u201cWow!\u201d says Dargossi.\n\u201cWhoa, wait just a second here,\u201d long time Eastbridge resident Liam Wolf told the Stapletonian when learning of the project that will be a stone\u2019s throw from his doorstep. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about splitting atoms; that\u2019s nuclear fusion or fission, one or the other \u2014 maybe both! Isn\u2019t that radioactive?\u201d\nAccording to Forrest City, while there is radioactive waste created in the process of splitting atoms, it\u2019s a miniscule amount and regardless of anyone\u2019s concerns over three-eye toads or fish in Westerly Creek (the accelerator\u2019s Western boundary and water intake source), \u201cit\u2019s a sweet deal for us, and Stapleton residents are going to get that beautiful park and town center they thought they had been promised when they first bought \u2014 the payments we get from the universities will more than pay for it. It\u2019s a win-win-win all around.\u201d\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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