Questions Regarding Particle Accelerator

What is the ideal location for a LHC-scaled particle accelerator? Is it possible that some ATL power built it near ocean, in lowland?
What are the requirements for a country to build it? Could the USSR built it if given enough time and resources?

Thanks in advance!
 
The Superconducting Super Collider would have been built in Texas, and it would have been even bigger than the LHC.

I don't know for sure, but I doubt a particle accelerator would be built in lowland near the ocean. It seems likely that would tend to flood over time; you'd have to pump it out, which is a pain, and it probably wouldn't be good for the equipment. But that's just a guess, I don't really know.

The USSR could certainly have built one given time and money, but the USSR was short on both in the 80s.
 
You need a stable bit of bedrock because earthquakes are nuisance.

You dont have to build it underground, just that doing so makes it a bit easier to make it stable, and it makes temperature control much simpler (if you built it above ground youd have to cope with day/night cooling and expansion)

Why on earth build one in a low lying area subject to flooding when youd have to keep pumping it out???
 
Well, you wouldn't want it anywhere near the Pacific's Ring of Fire, so that means Atlantic. Halifax doesn't need any more explosions :D perhaps near one of the major USN bases on the Atlantic as a military project?
 
Question: what happens if a particle accelerator explodes when used in full-power?
Would it comparable to a nuke?

And please, don't give that strangelet/black hole doomsday answers.
I really need a realistic one (to destroy the facility)
 
Question: what happens if a particle accelerator explodes when used in full-power?
Would it comparable to a nuke?

And please, don't give that strangelet/black hole doomsday answers.
I really need a realistic one (to destroy the facility)

Precisely jack and shit will occur :rolleyes:, the things have no damn explosive parts.

If one catastrophically breaks the particle beam will drill a small but very long hole in a wall and people standing right next to the machine might get electrocuted/hurt by bits of shrapnel from the equipment rupturing. The large magnets might do some damage to electronic systems in the building and produce a little more shrapnel.

I don't think you seem to understand what particle accelerators do - they impart energy to a few particles, with what relative the particle is an enormous amount - a proton with a trillion electronvolts, the best we can do right now still has had less than a single joule of energy imparted to it. A guy* has literally been shot through the brain by the full beam of a particle accelerator and merely got headaches and a weird scar.

A gas leak and cigarette is more likely both to destroy a building and give you cancer.

*Those wacky soviets!
 
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