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Nature 413, 441 (4 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35097216

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Large Hadron Collider in crisis as magnet costs spiral upwards

David Adam

Europe's attempt to build the world's most powerful particle accelerator was plunged into crisis this week as project managers admitted that it faces cost overruns of several hundred million dollars.CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being built, will face years of budget cuts and belt-tightening as a result of the overruns, its management told staff.