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In 1953 15 universities formed the Midwest Universities Research Association (MURA) to promote and design a high energy [[proton]] [[synchrotron]], to be built in the [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]]. With the intent of constructing a large accelerator, MURA purchased a suitable area of land with an underlying flat limestone base near Stoughton, Wisconsin, about 10 miles from the [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]] campus of the University of Wisconsin. A small electron storage ring, operating at 240 Mev, was designed as a test facility to study high currents, and construction of this ring started in 1965. However, in 1963 [[President of the United States|President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] had decided that the next large accelerator facility would not be built at the MURA site, but in [[Batavia]], [[Illinois]] - this became [[Fermilab]]. In 1967 MURA dissolved with the storage ring incomplete and with no further funding.
In 1966 a subcommittee of the National Research Council, which had been investigating the properties of [[synchrotron radiation]] from the 240 MeV ring, recommended it be completed as a tool for spectroscopy. A successful proposal was made to the [[US Air Force]] Office of Scientific Research, and the ring was completed in 1968, administered by the University of Wisconsin. <ref name="Tant">{{Cite journal
|last=Lynch |first=D. W.
|year=1997
|title=Tantalus, a
|journal=Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
|volume=4 |pages=334-343
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===Aladdin: 198x===
<ref name="Aladdin">{{Cite journal
|last=Rowe |first=Ednor M.
|year=1980
|title=The Aladdin electron storage ring
|journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|volume=342 |pages=334-343
|doi=10.1111/j.1749-6632.1980.tb47205.x
}}</ref>
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