U-70 (synchrotron)

Then they are injected into the fast-cyclic booster synchrotron U-1.5 having 100-m perimeter, where protons are accelerated to 1.32 GeV.

The total weight of the magnetic system of over 20 000 t. The prior injection of U-70 was a 100 MeV linear accelerator I-100 (until 1985).

A project for the UNK accelerator-storage complex, a proton-proton collider with an energy of 3 × 3 TeV, started in the mid 1980s.

It was planned that U-70 becomes an injector for the collider ring, but the project was stopped because of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Though he ultimately survived he did receive lifelong injuries to the left side of his face and experienced irregular bouts of epileptic seizures.