MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - The...

"I would be a bad director-general if I did not push for CERN at least bidding for the next global project. CERN is a fantastic place. [It] has proven that it can host such a project and therefore I think CERN should do it," Rolf-Dieter Heuer was quoted as saying by PhysicsWorld.com.

The new collider could also be built in the United States, and Russian scientists have said they are ready to "accept" the collider in Dubna, the Moscow Region town that is home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

CERN is already operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which has a circumference of 27 km and took $4.9 billion around 20 years to build 100 meters under the French-Swiss border with.

The LHC allows scientists to shoot sub-atomic particles round an accelerator ring at almost the speed of light, channeled by powerful fields produced by superconducting magnets.

In order to fire beams of protons round the vast underground circular device, the entire LHC

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