The implosion incident with Super-Kamiokande happened in 2001
“HOLY FUCK, an IMplosion?!”
One of these tubes – each of which contains a vacuum – is thought to have imploded as the detector was being refilled with water following maintenance work.
I guess “vacuum tube crushed by water” needed a bit of punching up.
It was a giant cascade of implosions. More than half of the tubes (7000+ tubes) imploded. One popped which caused a shockwave which in turn imploded its neighbors which popped and set off their neighbors…
The implosion incident with Super-Kamiokande happened in 2001. Repairs were completed in 2006.
“HOLY FUCK, an IMplosion?!”
I guess “vacuum tube crushed by water” needed a bit of punching up.
It was a giant cascade of implosions. More than half of the tubes (7000+ tubes) imploded. One popped which caused a shockwave which in turn imploded its neighbors which popped and set off their neighbors…
Oof that sounds expensive…
Something like $30 million to replace them all. They put some plastic covers over the new ones to try and prevent it from happening again.
Well yes, one imploded, but the shock wave created by that first implosion then shattered 6600 of them.
did they see any since then?
/j