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LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million

Posted by kdawson on from the black-holes-don't-come-cheap dept.

ThanatosMinor writes "September's quench at the Large Hadron Collider is going to cost CERN at least $21 million and delay future collisions until June of 2009 at the earliest. Enjoy your last few months outside of an event horizon."

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  1. Pocket change by BlueParrot · · Score: 4, Informative

    The total cost of the is estimated to be somewhere between 3 billion to 7 billion. A couple of tens of millions will increase the overall cost by less than 1%.