And privately designed/built/owned particle accelerators? It's definitely a new era. I actually worked at a startup from about 2007-2009 that was designing par

And privately designed/built/owned particle accelerators? It's definitely a new era. I actually worked at a startup from about 2007-2009 that was designing particle accelerators for another company pursuing what appears to be the exact same technology (possibly some of the same people). http://www.sigen.net/solar_technology.html http://www.sigen.net/solar_technology.html No idea what came of the project. Very high current ion accelerators in the +1 MeV range is quite the trick without a huge budget. Our company was full of people from Los Alamos. We were actually focusing on a different application that needed higher output. There is a quite sizeable commercial accelerator market for medical, industrial imaging, and radiation sterilization use (and of course various "homeland security uses".