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Egypt Launches 'Green River' Construction in New Capital

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly speaks at the opening ceremony for the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song/Pool
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly speaks at the opening ceremony for the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song/Pool
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Egypt Launches 'Green River' Construction in New Capital

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly speaks at the opening ceremony for the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song/Pool
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly speaks at the opening ceremony for the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song/Pool

Egypt has launched the Green River project in the new administrative capital (NAC), east of Cairo, aimed at linking a series of modern and diverse urban neighborhoods. The Egyptian government seeks to make the new capital the largest modern city in the world.

During the inauguration ceremony, Prime Minister and Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly said: "The project is being implemented by seven construction companies with a total of 500 machines, along with hundreds of workers."

"The Egyptian government is committed to this project and aims to conclude it in 18 months, by partnering with the private sector in all the development and construction phases, which will provide many opportunities for local and foreign investment. This comes as part of the government's belief in the importance of construction sector, which represents an extension for the ancestor's heritage and a message from the present to a bright future," the Prime Minister said.

Madbouly explained that the park will extend over a 10 km area, making it one of the largest in the world, and a garden that respects the topographical nature of the place and harmonizes with the general ecosystem. It will feature an integrated network of lanes for pedestrians and bicycles, and a range of distinctive projects.

Talking about the resources required for the afforestation of the new river, he said: “The output of the water treatment plants will be used to cultivate all the green areas, including the private gardens in houses. Treated water will be our main resource to irrigate green spaces."

According to the statement, the Green River is 35 km long. The starting phase will see the development of the first 10 kilometers, extending from the central ring road to the regional ring (eastern Cairo) with an estimated investment of 9 billion pounds. The project is conducted by the Housing Ministry in partnership with Dar Al-Handasah Office.

Director of Dar Al-Handasah Office Yehia Zaki said: "The Park is characterized by a wide variety of vegetation, which reflects the richness of the Egyptian natural vegetation environment.”

“The park is the main element in the urban structure of NAC's central district, with its unique spaces to accommodate activities and recreational services, as well as open areas. The park is directly linked to the residential neighborhoods surrounding the heart of the new administrative capital through a network of green axes."

The central park of the new administrative capital will provide a greater opportunity for community interaction between the residents and its wider scope. It is expected to host more than two million visitors annually and will offer the newest communication and transport systems, he explained.

Madbouly had also visited the under-construction towers in NAC's financial and business district project, which is being executed by the Chinese company CSCEC in cooperation with a number of Egyptian developers.

The construction of the 20 towers is aimed at providing myriads of services. Among them is the Icon Tower, the tallest in Africa, at a height of about 385 meters. The concrete bases will be continuously poured within days over 80 hours, registering a world record, according to Madbouly.

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Scientists Release Plans for an Even Bigger Atom Smasher to Address the Mysteries of Physics

Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
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Scientists Release Plans for an Even Bigger Atom Smasher to Address the Mysteries of Physics

Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Top minds at the world's largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.

The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva — published late Monday put the finishing details on a project roughly a decade in the making at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

The FCC would carry out high-precision experiments in the mid-2040s to study “known physics” in greater detail, then enter a second phase — planned for 2070 — that would conduct high-energy collisions of protons and heavy ions that would “open the door to the unknown,” said Giorgio Chiarelli, a research director at Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics, The AP news reported.

“History of physics tells that when there is more data, the human ingenuity is able to extract more information than originally expected,” Chiarelli, who was not involved in the plans, said in an e-mail.

For roughly a decade, top minds at CERN have been making plans for a successor to the Large Hadron Collider, a network of magnets that accelerate particles through a 27-kilometer (17-mile) underground tunnel and slam them together at velocities approaching the speed of light.

“Ultimately what we would like to do is a collider which will come up with 10 times more energy than what we have today,” said Arnaud Marsollier, a CERN spokesman. “When you have more energy, then you can create particles that are heavier.”

The blueprint lays out the proposed path, environmental impact, scientific ambitions and project cost. Independent experts will take a look before CERN's two dozen member countries decide in 2028 whether to go forward, starting in the mid-2040s at a cost of some 14 billion Swiss francs (about $16 billion).

CERN officials tout the promise of scientific discoveries that could drive innovation in fields like cryogenics, superconducting magnets and vacuum technologies that could benefit humankind.

Outside experts point to the promise of learning more about the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that has been controversially dubbed “the God particle,” which helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.

Work at the particle collider confirmed in 2013 the existence of the Higgs boson — the central piece in a puzzle known as the standard model that helps explains some fundamental forces in the universe.

“This set of reports represents an important milestone in the process, but a full sense of the likelihood of it being brought to fruition will only be known through careful studies by scientists, engineers and others, including politicians who must make difficult decisions at time when uncertainty rules the day,” Dave Toback, a professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, said in an e-mail.

The new collider “provides an exciting opportunity for the particle physics community, and indeed all of physics, on the world stage,” said Toback, who was not affiliated with the plans, and who worked for years at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in the United States that was shut down in 2011.

CERN scientists, engineers and partners behind the plans considered at least 100 scenarios for the new collider before coming up with the proposed 91-kilometer circumference at an average depth of 200 meters (656 feet). The tunnel would be about 5 meters (16 feet) in diameter, CERN said.