April 17, 2024

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Europe’s energy crisis hits CERN and forces early shutdown of Large Hadron Collider

ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus)

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By Oceane Duboust

The energy crisis fuelled by Russia’s war in Ukraine is not just squeezing households and businesses across the continent. It’s also affecting research in science laboratories, including at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN.

This physics lab, located on the border between Switzerland and France, is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator.

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