That's only one particle accelerator. There are actually over 26,000 of them in the world. - Suzie Sheehy

So there's some really interesting applications of accelerators, way outside of the realm of particle physics, that we're starting to get a handle on.

Number three. Don't use a particle accelerator as a death ray. When I was putting together this lecture I asked... my very esteemed colleagues, "Has anyone ever tried to develop an accelerator as a weapon?" And they said, "Oh mumble, mumble cold war, space, Star Wars something or other... No" That was their conclusion... They were wrong.

What could you do... if you took particle accelerators, and you made them really powerful... [T]his is something that I work on, is taking proton accelerators of relatively low energy, but putting more and more particles in, and getting a really high beam power...