Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator

GrepNut writes "CERN is reporting that the giant magnets that steer the particle beam in the new and highly anticipated Large Hadron Collider have just failed catastrophically in a stress test, apparently due to a design oversight. It doesn't help that the magnets were designed and built by CERN's US competitor Fermilab." While safety precautions were followed, and no one was injured nor were any rifts in the space-time continuum opened, it's still a rather large setback for the project.

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Not Magnet Failure

[AmIAnAi]

From TFA:

"The failure does not concern the magnets or the cold masses themselves, but rather their assembly in the cryostat."

I know we don't read TFA here, but is it too much for the submitter to get past the first paragraph.