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Home » Particle and nuclear » The Future Circular Collider is unduly risky – CERN needs a ‘Plan B’

The Future Circular Collider is unduly risky – CERN needs a ‘Plan B’

29 Jan 2026

The fragmenting world order makes plans to build the Future Circular Collider questionable, warns Michael Riordan

Artist's illustration of the FCC
Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the $18bn price tag? (Courtesy: CERN/Polar Media)
Last November I visited the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva to attend the 4th International Sy

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Michael Riordan is author of The Hunting of the Quark and lead author of Tunnel Visions: the Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
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