Penley, North Wales
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Penley, North Wales
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Facts and figures about CERN here.
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Dr. Lyn Evans (LHC Project Director) describing the 27km path of the acclerator. It passes under the Swiss - French border. (Geneva airport can be seenon the bottom left of the photo). |
| Our guide describing the supercomputers developed by CERN by linking together many thousands of PCs across the World. This phenomenal computer power is necessary to process the vast and unprecedented amount of data that the experiments will collect. |  |
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Dr. Evans describes the superconducting electromagnets to us. You can see the tunnel disappearing into the background. We are the only group of school students ever to have gone into this area! |
| Starting our journey into the tunnel. |  |
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The BBC went with us to cover the visit. Reports appeared on BBC Wales Today, Ffeil (Welsh Newsround), S4C Newyddion (News) and on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru. |
| The journalist Karen Peacock accompanied us from Liverpool Airport throughout the whole visit. She interviewed some of our students for the TV reports. |  |
Facts and figures about CERN here.
Back to our visit report here.