This describes how they will turn off and decommission in a little more
detail:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2011/09/tevatron_shutdown_how_do_you_turn_off_a_particle_accelerator_.html
- Jed
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/30/us-atom-smasher-tevatron-accelerates-its-last-particle/
"Helen Edwards, the lead scientist for the construction of the
Tevatron in the 1980s, terminated the final store in the Tevatron by
pressing a button that activated a set of magnets that steer the bea
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