The future of Michigan State University’s half billion dollar nuclear research project is somewhat in doubt.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu declined to discuss future federal funding for the research facility during an appearance today in Detroit. Chu says the MSU facility is one of several worthy scientific projects on the Energy Department’s drawing board.
“But in the end it all boils down to what our budget is going to be and how do we...spend that budget," says Chu.
The federal government approved the MSU nuclear research project in 2008.
MSU has already started work on the half billion dollar facility, based on the federal government’s commitment to help fund the project.
Michigan Senator Carl Levin says it would be “unconscionable if the federal government failed to live up to its commitments.”
