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Old 20-October-2008, 06:52 PM
Warren Platts Warren Platts is offline
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Originally Posted by Metricyard View Post
CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident

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.
The pdf is quite interesting. Turns out that 6 tonnes of liquid helium was released, rather than the 1 tonne mentioned in your link of Sept. 19th. That's 12,000 liquid gallons that immediately formed a cloud setting off the oxygen depletion sensors.
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