The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down for a year for safety reasons. The reason is that the LHC is too powerful for its own good. The shutdown will not take place immediately, but is expected to happen in two years’ time. Until then, it will run at half-power so as not to risk a FlashForward-scale event, potentially pushing out the project’s most exciting discoveries to 2013 or later. It is just that some of the copper stabilizers are not up to the quality needed to go to the full energy level.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/unsafe-lhc-to-be-shut-down-for-12-months-5492723