<ul><li>CERN has released plans for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a massive particle accelerator that would study the Higgs boson in unprecedented detail.</li><li>The FCC would have a circumference of 91 km and be built underground at a depth of about 200 m.</li><li>The funding for the FCC is estimated to come from CERN's member states, with construction potentially starting in 2030.</li><li>The plans also include a hadron machine, FCC-hh, that would begin operation in 2073 and run to the end of the century to create new particles.</li></ul>

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