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Big Particle Collider Repairs to Cost $21 Million

Posted November 17, 2008 10:21 AM

From msnbc.com: Science:

Fixing the world's largest atom smasher will cost at least $21 millionand may take until early summer, its operator said Monday. An electrical failure shut down the Large Hadron Collider on Sept. 19, nine days after the $10 billion machine started up with great fanfare. The European Organization for Nuclear Research recently said that the repairs would be completed by May or early June. Spokesman James Gillies said the organization know as CERN is now estimating the restart will be at the end of June or later.

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11/17/2008 9:42 PM

haha, no odd. high tech high invest.

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11/18/2008 1:24 PM

Are we sure no one "up there" is trying to tell us something????

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11/18/2008 3:26 PM

"...blamed the shutdown on the failure of a single, badly soldered electrical connection..."

Same old story - for want of a nail, the shoe was lost...

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11/18/2008 9:32 PM

<"....The organization has blamed the shutdown on the failure of a single, badly soldered electrical connection.......The cost of the work will fall within the organization's existing budget, Gillies said.....">

When taxpayers are paying, the pockets may be almost infinitely deep.

Where was the Quality Assurance Engineer?

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