Well yes, one imploded, but the shock wave created by that first implosion then shattered 6600 of them.
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe 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.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
teft@piefed.social 1 day ago
It was a giant cascade of implosions. More than half of the tubes (7000+ tubes) imploded in a cascade. One popped which caused a shockwave which in turn imploded its neighbors which popped and set off their neighbors…
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oof that sounds expensive…
teft@piefed.social 16 hours ago
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.