CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident
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Geneva, 16 October 2008. Investigations at CERN1 following a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel have confirmed that cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator’s magnets. This resulted in mechanical damage and release of helium from the magnet cold mass into the tunnel.
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I am so glad I don't have to work on this thing. It's probably going to take the whole winter shutdown to fix it.
Here's a PDF with a little more detail of the incident.
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