Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has directed $116 million of stimulus dollars to his old employer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California:

The Department of Energy will give Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory $115.8 million from the U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
This money will be spent upgrading the Advanced Light Source, a particle accelerator, and on building a new type of accelerator, the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator. The lab will also use the money to take down the Bevatron, an accelerator shut down in 1993.

I have no idea how many jobs these projects create, if any, but why should one penny of taxpayer dollars be used to dismantle an old science project? According to the LBL website, there’s not even a project planned yet for the land once the Bevatron is dismantled.

But at least we know Chu will return in glory to his old roost when his service in the Obama regime is over.