The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Virginia Tech and the Southeastern Universities Research Association to operate the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News.
The Jefferson Lab is one of the nation’s leading nuclear physics research facilities and draws over a thousand scientists from around the world each year. For decades, Virginia Tech has been involved at the lab, and now the university will be an official operator.
The current contractor, Southeastern Universities Research Association, or SURA, merged with Virginia Tech to form a new company, called SURATech…