The energy crisis also has consequences for research. That is why the CERN facility will go into winter break earlier.
If electricity prices remain high in the long term, this may mean that we have to reduce or extend the physics program,” warns research director Joachim Mnich. Due to the energy crisis, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is already sending its particle accelerator into winter break on November 28 – two weeks earlier than planned.
At the end of 2023, the pause for maintenance on the system should start even earlier. Mnich thinks that is manageable. All in all, the term will be reduced by 20 percent this year and next.
The switch was triggered by a request from the French electricity supplier EDF to quickly take cost-cutting measures. And not without reason: the particle accelerator is a gigantic energy eater. In a full year of operation, it consumes about as much electricity as the households of a city of 300,000.
Source: Krone
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