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Nature 420, 737 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420737b

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Neutrino physics: Tanked up and ready for action

David Cyranoski

Yoji Totsuka had planned for a quiet 2002, as he neared the end of his stint as director of Japan's Kamioka Observatory. But those plans were shattered in November 2001, along with almost 7,000 photomultiplier sensors, when a shockwave triggered by one imploding sensor swept through the observatory's water-filled neutrino detector.