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Super-K Accident



By now some of you may have heard of the $20-30 million accident Monday
at the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan. I had not heard about this
until it was brought to my attention today by a colleague from another
discussion list. It seems there was some sort of incident that imploded
over half their 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (at $3000 a pop) while the
12.5 million gallon water tank was being refilled following maintenance.

NY Times article:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/13/science/physical/13JAPA.html>

Best wishes,

Larry

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Larry Cartwright <exit60@cablespeed.com>
Retired (June 2001) Physics Teacher
Charlotte MI 48813 USA
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