Underground facility area370,000 m^2
18.5 millionSubway tiles
804IMAX screens
Including LHC caverns
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CERN Complex
The world's largest particle physics laboratory/Engineering Marvels
CERN sits on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva and hosts the Large Hadron Collider along with numerous other experiments. The complex includes about 600 buildings on the surface and a vast network of underground tunnels and caverns. Over 17,000 people from 110 nationalities work there, making it one of the most internationally collaborative places on Earth.
Measurements
Surface area of site6 million m^2
1,174White Houses
13.6Vatican Cities
198 billionthsAfricas
About 600 hectares
LHC circumference26,659 m
1,212Semi truck lengths
55,540Office chair heights
6.3 tenthsMarathon routes
26.659 km
Total power consumption200 million W
3.33Cruise ship engines
1.7 tenthsFlux capacitors
400 millionLED nightlights
200 MW peak
Annual energy consumption4.3 quadrillion J
4.3 trillionMicrowave seconds
8.6 quadrillionFarts
1.6 billionCar batteries
About 1.2 TWh/year
LHC operating temperature1.9 K
5.3 thousandthsSaunas
517 millionthsWelding arcs
Colder than outer space