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Originally Posted by physmoon
Take nuclear reactors, they are run by private enterprise. can they be trusted to maintain safety standards? sometimes yes sometimes no. There must be as part of the standard operation completely independent inspections on all facilities and procedures.
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In the US, those independent inspections are done by the Nuclear Reglatory Commission, as well as the additional regulation of any industrial operation done by the EPA, OSHA, and local agencies. If you don't trust the NRC... well that debate gets too political for this forum.
Now, how do you know that similar things have not been done in European for CERN's operation of the LHC?