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Police officer's gun sucked away by powerful magnets in lab raid (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. The magnet quench flash boils a bunch of helium which is itself expensive, and presents a nice asphyxiation hazard as well. And then, assuming the quench damaged nothing, you have to set up the magnet again by getting the coils back down to superconducting temperatures... to get there, you end up boiling off a lot more helium. And then you have have to bring an engineer in to get the electrons spinning through the coil again and wait for the wobbles in the current to stabilize.

Or so I think. I work with NMR spectrometers and not MRIs, but it's essentially the same technology.

[–] propofool 8 points 2 months ago

There's also a finite supply of helium/liquid helium and ...it ain't cheap to refill.