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Economic impact of the proposed KAON Factory

TRIUMF

TRIUMF is proposing to build and operate a KAON Factory at the site of its existing meson facility in Vancouver. The KAON Factory would significantly enhance TRIUMF's research capabilities in the area of subatomic physics and would be used by both Canadian and international scientists. Because the world-wide scientific community is in agreement that only one KAON Factory should be built, the project offers Canada the opportunity to remain at the leading edge of subatomic physics research. The cost of constructing the KAON Factory is estimated at $532 million over five years. The estimated annual operating cost of about $90 million includes the $33 million per year now spent for the meson facility. The purpose of this study, which was jointly funded by the Government of British Columbia and TRIUMF, is to assess the economic impacts of building and operating the KAON Factory. The study has also investigated the economic impacts of the existing meson facility, which serves as a good empirical example of the type of economic activity expected to be generated by the KAON Factory.

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2017-09-06

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62979

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/