LHC MALFUNCTIONS

September 22, 2008
GENEVA: The world's largest atom smasher, launched with great fanfare this month, has been damaged twice and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said.
CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, said over the weekend that a large amount of helium had leaked into the 27km circular tunnel deep under the Swiss-French border that houses the Large Hadron Collider.
The collider began operating on September 10, flinging protons around the circle at nearly the speed of light. But it had to be shut down only 36 hours later after an electrical transformer failed.
That was repaired, but a CERN statement said a second failure in another section of the tunnel had caused the large helium leak.
AP

REAL NICE, MAKING BLACK HOLES AND THEY RUN INTO A PROBLEM! I FEEL SAFE HAVING THEM TRY IT AGAIN ,HOW BOUT YOU?