Word: cyclotrons
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University physicists are sitting up on a grim "death watch" this morning at the Everett St. Cyclotron Lab after starting up the balky 745-ton machine for a non-stop, three week marathon...
Because of a faulty transformer, officials fear they may not be able to crank up the atom smasher again if they let it stop before new parts arrive next month. Two men shifts have been assigned to the temperamental cyclotron on a 24-hour guard: one man is never allowed alone in the same room with the high voltage instrument...
...molecular mixup started Sunday night when the cyclotron first showed signs of this collapse. Gerald P. Weiss 2G was the first to witness the starting transformer burn...
...finally shut it off," he said afterwards, "because I didn't want to get the blame for it. If you ask me, the thing is always breaking down. "It's a plain headache." Weiss is a research assistant at the cyclotron laboratory and a graduate student in nuclear physics...
...last major breakdown occurred last spring when water from a puddle in back of the laboratory leaked into the building and caused a short circuit in the cyclotron's magnetic coils. The machine was out of use for six weeks while the puddle water was drying...