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Because safety and hazardous waste concerns are less pressing with fusion compared to fission, fusion projects in the U.S. will be regulated in a manner like the regime used to regulate particle accelerators.—Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025 Every handoff to Skattebo is like firing up a particle accelerator, smashing this little blue thing into those little green things, hoping to glimpse the fundamental building blocks of the universe.—Andy Behrens, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 The particle accelerator dates back to the earliest days of nuclear testing, built for the Manhattan Project, but was moved to its current home on the Davis campus in the 1950s.—Nina Dietz, Wired News, 27 Sep. 2025 In 2008: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for particle accelerator
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