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March/April 2000, Volume 10, Number 2, Circulation 9258, Subscribe Free

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View from the Inside: It's Budget Request Time for FY 2001View from the Inside: Spring Time is Budget Request Time for the Office of Science—DOE requests a 12% increase for the Office of Science's FY 2001 budget above this year's appropriation.
Gadolinium zirconate structureNew Rad-Resistant Material for Safer Storage of Plutonium: Gadolinium zirconate's resistance to radiation and aqueous dissolution are properties that may make it a promising material for immobilizing plutonium and other actinides.
New semiconductor alloyCrazy Physics: Sandia researchers say there's "some crazy physics going on" with a new semiconductor alloy, indium gallium arsenide nitride, that may be used as a photovoltaic power source for space communications satellites.
World's Largest Fast-Growth CrystalWorking Science: World's Largest Fast-Growth Crystal—An enormous, record-breaking 701-pound crystal has been grown at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in only 52 days.

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