On Saturday 31 December 2016 11:12:33 Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/31/2016 04:34 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 31 December 2016 at 03:07, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >> But did they fix the problem? It seems to me that tracking the > >> helium level in the system ought to be something a 6th grader > >> watching mechanical gauges could do. > > > > Superfluid cryogenic helium might be rather a tricky thing to > > measure the level of. > > Well, there are ways, usually using self-heating thermistors. > > But, the problem was they sprung a leak in a gaseous helium > line, and lost thousands of cubic feet of helium, and > nothing sounded the alarm until some other system noticed a > shortage. > > I'm sure there were monitoring systems for this, but for > some reason, they didn't work. Could have been so stupid as > the system had the wrong pager number for the guy on call. > I just don't know how it happened, and it is ALL > scuttlebutt, as they are too embarrassed to write a paper on it. > > Jon > You have to grin and chuckle at that bit of CTA at its finest, its just our tax dollars after all.
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