The Large Hadron Collider, of course,is the world's largest particle accelerator located near Geneva.

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Professor Egil Lillestol of Bergen University has been pushing thorium for some years now, and thinks that Norway should set the trend in building a prototype accelerator-driven reactor in which a massive particle accelerator converts thorium-232 to uranium-233 by irradiating it with slow (spallation) neutrons generated by the impact of a 1.6 GeV proton beam on a lead target.

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One of the intriguing discoveries of 2011 came the giant particle accelerator in Switzerland.

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They can be introduced with a particle accelerator, which can be turned off if danger threatens.

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