Secretary of Energy Rick Perry visits Jefferson
Lab
Jefferson Lab Director and DOE Site Office Deputy Manager welcome Secretary Perry.
On Feb. 21, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry
visited the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), one of the nation’s premier national laboratories for nuclear physics research and accelerator science.
During his visit, the Secretary spoke with
students participating in one of the lab’s long-running STEM programs, Becoming Enthusiastic About Math and Science, or BEAMS.
Secretary Perry & BEAMS students conducted experiments using liquid nitrogen and magnets.
The Secretary then attended a tour of Jefferson Lab, including a stop at the Data Center for
discussions on the lab’s scientific computing
program and involvement in ongoing exascale computing projects.
The lab’s Superconducting Radiofrequency
(SRF) Institute was also highlighted on the tour. This is where scientists and engineers are
enhancing and improving particle acceleration capabilities, including conducting R&D for
the lab’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and other DOE National Laboratories.
Next, Secretary Perry visited portions of
CEBAF, where he spoke with several of the more than 1,500 scientists who use CEBAF’s
world-leading research capabilities to conduct experiments.
Secretary Perry is briefed on CEBAF Accelerator
operations in the Machine Control Center by the lab's Accelerator Division Interim Associate
Director.
Hall D Staff Scientist discuses the working
of the detector system in Hall D.
Hall B Staff Scientist uses a display in Hall
B to explain the detector systems used in CLAS12.
During a Town Hall meeting attended by Jefferson
Lab staff and visiting scientists, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry shared his excitement
about the research underway at the lab and across the National Laboratory complex.
Because you're about things that change people's
lives.
What you all are involved with changes the
world.
And I'm not sure there is any place, in the
federal government, from my perspective, that
has any more important role then what you
play and what you are doing.
Referring to his year leading the Department
of Energy, Secretary Perry said, "...I have
never worked with people that I find more
interesting, more intelligent, more patriotic
than the men and women in the national labs."
Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, a joint
venture of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. and PAE Applied Technologies,
manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson
National Accelerator Facility, or Jefferson
Lab, for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest
supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working
to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
For more information, visit science.energy.gov.
