The European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN)’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland Photo: CERN, Wikimedia Commons

A Chinese scientist has recently reiterated the idea of building the world’s largest particle collider in China. His team had published a technical design report for it last December.

Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said that the country will soon draft a blueprint for the construction of the particle collider called the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), which could cost about 36 billion yuan (US$5 billion).

He said China may start building the CEPC as early as 2027 and it will take 10 years to complete the construction of the facility.

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