The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performed extremely well in 2011 and now engineers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, want to crank up the juice through 2012.
However, to avoid a similar incident to the devastating "quench" that buckled a section of the LHC's supercooled magnets in 2008 -- thereby delaying the LHC's official start up by over a year -- they are going to do it very carefully.
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