Fermilab received an allocation of essentially $29.5 million, including $9.5 million to get Nova [a neutrino project] restarted - it had been zero-ed out in the 2008 omnibus bill. Nova is a project that needs to be done within a reasonable timescale and can't lose much more time. The other $20 million was used to avoid layoffs and to shore up staff. It eliminated the involuntary stage of our layoffs. Our scientists are involved in both colliders, so it's not an issue of it being a boon for us. It has always seemed to me that the prudent thing would be to run the Tevatron until it is clearly overtaken by the LHC, and that means having colliding beams at energy, with reasonable luminosities.
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