BERKELEY, Calif. (KCBS) -- The National Science Foundation is giving Cal nearly $30 million to help turn the former Homestake gold mine in South Dakota into the world’s deepest laboratory.
"We\'re looking to build a facility to host a variety of different experiments," said Kevin Lesko, a UC Berkeley adjunct professor of physics.. and principle investigator for the project.
KCBS' Jeff Bell reports
Those experiments that need to be well shielded from sources of background such as cosmic rays or local radiactivity.
Physics is just one of the areas of interest for the scientists who hope to set up labs at unprecedented depths. Lesko says geomicrobiologists are trying to understand the organisms that live far below the surface of the earth.
Lesko says the scientists hope to present a preliminary design for the lab by 2011 and start construction in 2013.
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