Source: ISNA, Tehran

Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Nasrin Soltankhah said the country has built pilot version of accelerator.

sketch of an electrostatic Van de Graaf accelerator

"The macroproject is one of the long-term plans in the country which takes at least 10 years to be implemented," she said.

She said location studies for the domestically-built accelerator have been completed and it is scheduled to be deployed in Qazvin Park of Science and Technology.

Soltankhah expressed hope the project would be implemented in next 10 years.

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