Number 134 (Story #4), June 24, 1993 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET request for fiscal year 1994 for various categories (in millions of dollars): 640 for SSC; 628 for high energy physics, including 141 for Fermilab, 80 for SLAC, and 43 for BNL operating expenses, 25 for the Fermilab main injector, and 36 for a B factory (to be built at SLAC or Cornell); 322 for nuclear physics, including 70 for RHIC; 802 for basic energy sciences, including 143 for materials science, 134 for facilities operations, including new synchrotron light sources at Berkeley and Argonne; 119 for construction, mostly for the Argonne light source; 348 for (mostly magnetic) fusion energy; and 188 for inertial-confinement fusion. The FY94 NASA budget request for some specific physics-related items: 1075 for physics and astronomy, including 260 for AXAF, 40 for Gravity Probe-B, 261 for Hubble operations and data analysis; 557 for planetary exploration, including 206 for Cassini development, 57.6 for Galileo and 34 for Mars Observer. (Physics Today, June 1993.)