19-September-2008, 07:25 PM
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Another small setback.
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..But those hopes were dashed by a series of “teething problems,” as one engineer put it, including the failure of a 30-ton transformer in the system for chilling the helium that, in turn, chills the superconducting magnets that guide the protons. On Friday, CERN announced that a large spill of helium in the collider tunnel would mean a further delay..
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