Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Newport News, Virginia)

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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is funded by the Office of Science for the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) with strong support from the City of Newport News, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the United States Congress. As a user facility for scientists worldwide, its primary mission is to conduct basic research of the atom's nucleus at the quark level.

With industry and university partners, it has a derivative mission as well: applied research for using the Free-Electron Lasers based on technology the laboratory developed to conduct its physics experiments. As a center for both basic and applied research, Jefferson Lab also reaches out to help educate the next generation in science and technology. Jefferson Lab is managed and operated for the DoE by the Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA). JSA is a Southeastern Universities Research Association/Computer Sciences Corporation limited liability corporation created specifically to manage and operate Jefferson Lab.
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Coordinates:   37°5'42"N   76°28'55"W

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  • (By Tim McGlone, Virginia-Pilot, 9/25/08) A Newport News physicist has been charged with violating federal arms-control laws by selling rocket technology to China that's now being used in that country's space program. Quan-Sheng Shu, 68, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Shanghai, was arrested Sept. 24 and made an initial appearance that afternoon in U.S. District Court in Norfolk. Selling defense and space technology to China or other prohibited countries without a license is a violation of the federal Arms Export Control Act. Shu operates Amac International Inc. at the Applied Research Center in the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News. He is accused of selling technology to China, using a French company as an intermediary, for the development of hydrogen-propelled rockets, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in court. The complaint says China paid him more than $250,000. He also is charged with bribing Chinese officials to push the sale through.
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