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Uploaded by on Jul 27, 2006

Interesting news clip of an MRI scanner deinstallation where upon the Magnet blew up (due to pressure of liquid helium or nitrogen evaporation).

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  • Looks like they needed to contact the manufacturer and follow the proper decommissioning procedure.

  • That would not have helped though. The entire point of a superconductor is that it has 0 resistance, ergo, cutting the power _wont_ remove the charge it already contains. There are two ways of solving this, either tap all the power from the superconductor or heat up the superconductor so it stops being a superconductor.

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  • Never put an MRI machine in a microwave.

  • I dooo love it when MRI machines explode

  • Talk about good timing. It could have been so much worse. If it was going to explode that was probably the best place.

  • Helium Quench failure it seems.

  • whoa.

  • @SatoriSoul ROFL! I was looking at old comments I've posted over the years. Just came across this one, I don't even know what I was trying to say when I replied to you.

  • @angryadrien I didn't know they attempt to move them when they're pressurized.

  • Why do you think it needed to be replaced? lol

  • holy crap, I didn't know that they pressurised the magnets! yikes!

  • Haha I'm glad that nothing happened to me during MRI .

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