I have to ask just what safety tests they propose running? Its been proven that less powerful colliders won't destroy the planet (given that we have been running them for years) the only test I can think of is slowly ramping up the power level looking for signs of potentially dangerous stuff, which is IIRC not much different from the planned initial operation of the LHC.

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