Big particle collider repairs to cost $21 million
November 17, 2008 By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS , Associated Press Writer
(AP) -- Fixing the world's largest atom smasher will cost at least 25 million francs ($21 million) and may take until early summer, its operator said Monday.
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$ 10,000,000,000 to
$ 20,000,000.
Give me $50, I'll have the wire soldered in a few minutes then we can fire this thing up.
Like a $20 repair on a $10,000 car.
Its not the wire, it's the damage that was done because of the bad wire. If I remember correctly, one of the superconducting magnets quenched, causing the liquid helium that cools the magnets to be nearly instantly boiled, blowing apart a section of this $10 billion machine. Cost to repair that section and re-cool the whole shebang = $20 million.