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Nature 400, 390 (29 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/22593

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Senate baulks at cost of collider project

Colin Macilwain

The US Senate is moving to abandon the Next Linear Collider (NLC), a 30-kilometre long accelerator that high-energy physicists would like to build in the United States as their next major experiment after Europe's Large Hadron Collider.The move follows a finding by the Department of Energy that the project could cost as much as $7.