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Nature 413, 660 (18 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35099704

CERN's head rejects mismanagement claims

Alison Abbott

Luciano Maiani, director general of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, has denied that mismanagement has led to cost overruns on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project.CERN shocked its 20 member states last month by announcing cost overruns of SFr480 million (US$296 million) on the SFr2.