NATION IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Problems Denied on Super Collider

The superconducting super collider will meet original specifications within its $5.9-billion budget, Deputy Energy Secretary W. Henson Moore told members of Congress. He said there is no plan to move the project from Waxahachie, Tex. A Washington Post article had quoted unnamed U.S. officials and private scientists as saying that design modifications could reopen the location issue. As planned, the collider would be a 53-mile underground chamber in which atomic particles would be hurled at each other by superconducting magnets to test theories about the origin of the universe.