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Many CEA scientists now believe the explosion was touched up by liquid hydrogen which spilled while being fed into the experimental hall's bubble chamber. The CEA is considering requesting funds for a separate bubble chamber building on the grounds so that an accident would be much less destructive there than in the present hall. The chamber is now being re-assembled but will not be used by the Harvard-M.I.T. experimenters who being work in November...
...safety rules, which will go into effect even though the bubble chamber will not be in use, are still being drafted. Paterson and a special Safety Committee of CEA staff members. They will include restrictions on the amount of fuel that can be used in the hall and on the places where fuel sources can be located, Paterson said...
JULY 6--An explosion and three-alarm fire rips through the experimental hall of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, injuring eight Harvard and M.I.T. scientists and technicians and causing at least $1 million in damage. The explosion blew the roof off the circular experimental hall and severely damaged the bubble chamber then being filled with 100 gallons of liquid hydrogen...
JULY 7--Preliminary investigation indicates that 95 gallons of liquid hydrogen in the bubble chamber were expelled safely and that hydrogen in the chamber filling system may have caused the explosion...
JULY 18--CEA officials predict that work will resume in parts of the experimental hall by November and confirm that the bubble chamber will be rebuilt...