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The Large Hadron Collider is the world's most powerful
particle accelerator
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The Large Hadron Collider at Cern is offline after suffering a short circuit - caused by a weasel.
The unfortunate creature did not survive the encounter with a transformer at the site near Geneva in Switzerland.
The LHC was running when a "severe electrical perturbation" occurred in the early hours of Friday morning.
A spokesman for Cern said that the weasel did not get into the tunnels, just the electrical facilities.
Arnaud Marsollier told the BBC that while it was, fortunately, not every day that an animal affected the equipment, it was not that surprising as the research facility is in the countryside.
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