The Energy Department picked 16 companies to work on the preliminary stages of producing magnets for its giant superconducting supercollider, to be built near Dallas. Chosen were: Alsthom, France; Asea Brown Boveri Technology Co., New Jersey, a unit of the Swedish-Swiss firm; Babcock and Wilcox, Virginia; Elin-Union, Austria; Fuji Electric Co., Japan; General Atomics, California, teamed with Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Japan; General Dynamics, Space Systems Division, California; General Electric Co.`s Magnet Systems Division, South Carolina; General Motors Corp.; Grumman Corp., teamed with Italy`s Ansaldo; Hitachi, teamed with Mitsubishi Electric; Interatom and Siemens, West Germany; Intermagnetics General, New York; Kobe Steel Ltd., Japan; Noell, West Germany; and Westinghouse Electric Corp.
