Sweden: Decades of research samples destroyed after freezer breakdown. During the Christmas holidays, sixteen cryogenic tanks, which could operate for four days without additional liquid nitrogen, were deprived of it for five days.
The samples were stored at a temperature of minus 190 degrees Celsius in tanks cooled with liquid nitrogen at the Karolinska Institute (KI) KI is home to the Nobel Assembly, which is responsible for selecting the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Some media reported that the estimated value of the lost samples was around 500 million crowns ($47 million)