The University of Rochester is currently planning the construction of a nuclear‐structure laboratory to equipped with an MP two‐stage Van de Graaff accelerator that is now being designed by the High Voltage Engineering Corporation. Funds for the celerator (more than $3 million) have already been provided under a grant to the University from the National Science Foundation. In addition, the Foundation and the State of New York have each allocated sums of $425 000 to defray part of the construction costs of the laboratory buildings, which are expected to amount to more than $1.7 million.