South Dakota underground lab site remains viable

Science : Despite funding cuts by the National Science Board last December, the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL), expected to be built in the former Homestake gold mine near Lead, South Dakota, will retain its viability as a future facility a while longer. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy have agreed to pay for pumping water out of the mine so that it does not flood, which should preserve the site while the two agencies wrangle over how to transfer primary responsibility for DUSEL from NSF to DOE.