Japan will study a U.S. request to contribute up to $2 billion to an $8 billion project to build a superconducting supercollider in Texas, a government spokesman said Friday.
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A U.S. delegation headed by Deputy Secretary of Energy Henson Moore has been in Tokyo since Tuesday, conferring with Japanese officials on Japan's participation in the plan to build a 54-mile-long tunnel in Texas for high-energy physics research.The U.S. government will contribute $5 billion to the project, the state of Texas will add $1 billion and the rest is to come from foreign sources, said John Easton, U.S. assistant energy secretary for international affairs.