Engineers hope an early warning system being installed at the Large Hadron Collider could prevent incidents of the kind which shut the machine last year. The helium leak last September, which resulted from a "faulty splice" between magnets, has delayed the start of science operations by more than a year. Officials aim to re-start the collider, known as the LHC, in mid-November. The vast physics lab is built inside a 27km-long circular tunnel straddling the French-Swiss border near Geneva. (source: news.bbc.co.uk)
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