Posted on 02/10/2009 2:52:53 PM PST by xcamel
GENEVA — Additional safety features being added to the world's largest atom smasher will postpone its startup until the end of September, a year after the $10 billion machine was sidelined by a simple electrical fault, the operator said Tuesday.
The cost of the repairs and added safety features has yet to be determined, but it will be covered by the regular budget of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, spokeswoman Christine Sutton said.
The 20-nation organization, known as CERN, has said previously that repairs will cost at least 25 million Swiss francs ($21.5 million), but the amount appears to have risen since scientists could review the extent of the damage and devise new safety features.
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Aided and abetted by a phalanx of quarks.
“Don’t be Vague, ask for Sprague”... :)
I’ll schedule my hygienist after September. No point in wasting a visit if the world ends.
If the black holes get out of control, the upside is that they'll stop global warming! /s
If push it to December 21 of 2012, then we can *really* start worrying! End of the Mayan calander, you know...
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