Germany says it cannot fund planned Cern particle accelerator

Europe’s nuclear research organisation urged to reconsider next accelerator by key contributor

The German research ministry has said that it cannot afford to fund Cern’s potential next particle accelerator, and blasted the financing plan for the Future Circular Collider as being “extremely vague”.

Cern, Europe’s nuclear research organisation, said earlier this year that plans to potentially replace the Large Hadron Collider with the FCC as the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator had passed a midterm review.