<story><title>CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/cern-drafts-plans-to-idle-accelerators-due-to-europe-s-energy-crunch/47875950</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chaorace</author><text>Makes sense. So much of the work around CERN already happens independent of whether the collider is running or not, so skipping a rough season seems like the sensible thing to do (&lt;i&gt;even from a purely inward facing cost&amp;#x2F;benefit standpoint&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a shame that the timing just had to coincide with the start of LHC Run 3, though. They only managed to generate around 5-6 months of data after 3 years of upgrades. I imagine that should still be enough to keep the scientists busy this Winter, though.</text></comment>
<story><title>CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/cern-drafts-plans-to-idle-accelerators-due-to-europe-s-energy-crunch/47875950</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>From what I recall the last time I was there is that they tune it down quite a bit in winter anyway because of electricity that is needed else where in France.&lt;p&gt;Also from my understanding most of the electricity that is generated for CERN is by nuclear power plants and since so many of those are currently under maintenance they may need the power they do have to supply export agreements etc.</text></comment>