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Nature 420, 721 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420721b

CERN collider project back on track

Alison Abbott

The governing council of CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory, has approved an eight-year financial plan that will focus tightly on its main project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).The plan's approval should end a period of uncertainty at the lab, after the emergence of hefty cost overruns on the LHC, and problems with the manufacture of its 1,000 or so superconducting magnets (see Nature 413, 441; 200110.1038/35097216