I don't think the Fermilab knows it was shut down.
http://www.fnal.gov/
You guys are the absolute worst at Internets 101
From your own link:
http://www.fnal.gov/faw/future/q-and-a.shtml
Q: What will happen at Fermilab after the Tevatron shuts down?
A: The closure of the 26-year-old Tevatron was anticipated long ago by Fermilab
Q: Will Fermilab have a successor to the Tevatron?
A: Research and development for several types of high-energy particle colliders is going on today at Fermilab and at laboratories and universities around the world. Over the next few years, results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider will point the way to which type of accelerator the particle physics community should build next. Fermilab hopes to host one of those future machines. But high-energy colliders at the Energy Frontier are expensive
Q: What will happen to the Tevatron accelerator, and the CDF and DZero detectors?
A: The period following the final shutdown of any particle accelerator is called decommissioning. In the first phase of the decommissioning of the Tevatron and the CDF and DZero experiments, we plan to open parts of the Tevatron, and the CDF and DZero experiments, to public display and tours. Not all Tevatron and detector components will remain in place. Some components may be re-used in future experiments at Fermilab and around the world, while others will be removed from the tunnel or detector cavern and safely stored.
Q: I've heard that the Tevatron and the CDF and DZero detectors will be open to the public. When can I visit?
A: We do hope to eventually make parts of the Tevatron tunnel, and the CDF and DZero detectors, available for guided tours. Plans to incorporate these areas into Fermilab's public tour programs are currently in the works.
10-1-2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-big-science/2011/09/29/gIQAR9SK8K_story.html
Tevatron atom smasher’s close ends era of big science
One scientist called it a 25-year adrenaline rush.
On Friday, though, the buzz will end. After a remarkable run as the most successful atom smasher in the world, the Tevatron — a four-mile underground ring about 50 miles west of Chicago — will smash no more.
At 2 p.m., Pier Oddone, director of
Fermilab, the Energy Department facility that operates the Tevatron, will command the shutdown of the mammoth machine. Operators will switch off dual beams of particles that have been colliding since 1985, sprouting terrific sprays of fleeting particles that offered a glimpse of the subatomic world.
“That will be it,” said Gregorio Bernardi, a Fermilab physicist.
The closure offers a bitter endnote for American scientists, who have long warned of a shift in physics power. European scientists once traveled to Fermilab in bunches. Now, droves of American physicists fly to Geneva, home of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or
CERN, which operates the LHC.
ut some American physics veterans would prefer to be operating on U.S. soil. Congress squashed that opportunity in 1993 when it canceled Tevatron’s successor, the Superconducting Super Collider, after spending $2 billion and digging 14 miles of what was supposed to be a 54-mile underground ring in north Texas.
Over the coming days, the Tevatron’s 1,000 liquid-helium cooled magnets will slowly warm. Eventually, Oddone said, a section of the Tevatron’s tunnel and one of its massive collision detectors will be converted from atom-smashing into a more quotidian task: hosting visitors as a museum.
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