CERN
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Per Diem Rates FY 2026
Per diem covers lodging and meals & incidental expenses (M&IE) for government and contractor travel near this facility. Rates are from the U.S. State Department foreign per diem tables for FY 2026.
$292
Lodging/Night
$195
M&IE/Day
$487
Total/Day
Switzerland: rate for locations the State Department does not list separately
U.S. Department of State foreign per diem, for U.S. government and contractor travel.
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About This Site
Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: CERN: the history of CERN; Wikipedia: CERN.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the particle physics laboratory on the French-Swiss border at Meyrin, near Geneva. Geneva voters approved the site in a 1953 referendum, and CERN's founding convention took effect on 29 September 1954.
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CERN has no power or research reactor; its work is done with particle accelerators. The first, the 600 MeV Synchrocyclotron, started in 1957, followed by the Proton Synchrotron in 1959. The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest accelerator, first circulated beams in 2008.