Deep underground, on the border between France and Switzerland, is a gigantic scientific machine. <br /><br />The Large Hadron Collider, spanning 100m underground, is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles, in the hope of better understanding the universe. <br /><br />Now Russian scientists plan to have a Hadron Collider as well. <br /><br />While it will use 1000 times less energy that the European conterpart, the Superconductive Cryogenic Nuclotron is a series of pipes used to propel atomic particles at tremendous speed.<br /><br />In seven years time this will be an integral part of Russia's Collider but the project has some controversial international partners, North Korea and Cuba among them. <br /><br />Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports from the Dubna Nuclear Research Facility near Moscow.
