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Published on: 10/13/2009
Last Visited: 10/17/2009
NEW YORK - Scientists Gordon Danby and James Powell worked at Brookhaven National Lab in Upton in the 1960s and are retired.
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Danby, of Wading River, and Powell, of Shoreham, founders of Maglev 2000, have, in conjunction with Riverhead Town, applied for a $59-million federal grant to demonstrate high-speed magnetic-levitation trains at the former Grumman complex in Calverton.
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Danby and Powell may have an edge over others working maglev projects elsewhere in the country: They won patents - since expired - for maglev technologies in the '60s.
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Said Powell: "The country has become less of a risk-taker and less forward-looking.