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Cern chiefs push €16bn particle accelerator expansion plan

Debate over funding of ‘pure science’ ventures heats up with ambitious proposal for 91km supercollider
A worker at the Large Hadron Collider. The planned Future Circular Collider would be more than three times its size

Scientists want to push ahead with a €16bn expansion of the world’s biggest particle accelerator to probe the universe’s secrets even more deeply, defying critics who say the money would be better spent on more practical areas of research.

Executives at Cern near Geneva expect next year to complete a feasibility study on construction of the so-called Future Circular Collider (FCC) — a 91km ring more than three times the size of the existing Large Hadron Collider.

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