CERN backs plan for successor to Large Hadron Collider which may cost €20B

The CERN Council has approved an update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics that recommends work on a 100-kilometre particle accelerator, dubbed the Future Circular Collider (FCC). It would be built in Geneva as a successor to the 27-kilometre Large Hadron Collider, where the Higgs boson was first observed. It could reportedly cost around €20 billion (₹1.7 lakh crore).