http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2011/01/2011-01-17-quest.mp3
For the last 18 years, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, up in the Berkeley hills, has had the physics equivalent of a rusty pickup truck parked in its front yard. The Bevatron is a 1950's-era atom smasher that was decommissioned in 1993.
Now, the Bevatron is being demolished -- by the end of this year, it will be gone. And with it, a chapter in the Bay Area's history of high level physics research, as Amy Standen reports.