THE POWERHOUSE.

Discusses the synchrotron project under construction at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon as of winter 2002. Background on the technology of the giant particle accelerator and how it will be used in fields such as medicine; Details of the financing and design of the Canadian Light Source project; Cost of the facility, which will be a third-generation synchrotron that provides light a thousand times more intense than earlier models; How the province won the project.