Ronn Blankenship wrote:

> Researchers in the control room next to the apparatus felt
> the floor tremble and heard explosions from the next room,
> Kyodo news agency said.

> As a result of the accident, the Education ministry official
> said, more than half the sensors appear to have been damaged.

> "It's very hard to estimate the cost or how long it will
> take before we can use the facility again," he added.

> "All the damaged sensors will have to be remade and
> replaced. It could well cost around two billion yen."

> He said that while investigations into the accident had
> just begun, it did not initially appear to be due to
> operator error.

Did a quantum-computing Neandertal from a parallel universe
appear in the tank, causing the accident? ;-)

(See this month's Analog.)
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