HTTP:: LHC Re Opening Delayed at Least Two Months
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Shortly after managing to fix the helium leaks that forced engineers to shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) last September, project managers discovered another fluke. This time, they identified two areas of vacuum leak, in regions of the particle accelerator that needed to be cooled near absolute zero. The new damage will set back the scheduled re-commissioning date by at least two to three months, which should give engineers sufficient time to fix everything. The reason why the new repairs will take so long is because the two areas need to be heated first, so that repairmen can near it. There is currently no way to allow the crew access in these segments at the ultracold temperatures at which they operate. According to officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the owner of the LHC, the structure will be ready to accelerate new beams of particles in late November 2009, Wired informs. Last year, when it was first announced that the accelerat!
or was incapacitated, officials said that it would be back online by July this year. However, schedule delays and complications with the repair sequences have forced representatives to delay the estimated date to September, and then again to November. Statistics and project sheets now show that the Collider is more than two and a half years...
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