Particle beams are once again flowing through the bowels of CERN's Large Hadron Collider after a catastrophic helium leak caused all systems to stop last September. Don't start packing that bomb shelter, though. The LHC doesn't have a clean bill of health just yet. Scientists only put two of the facility's eight 2.2-mile-long sectors into action, leaving plenty of the 17-mile-long ring to test out before operations resume this November.
It's still a big step for the LHC, which was left with sub-performing magnets in the wake of the big leak. According to a CERN report, the magnets in the sectors tested are operating at full strength and the test is "a perfect functioning of the machine."
[CERN via PopSci]
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