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Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is odd. I run a similar but smaller facility in New Zealand (3 tanks). If the nitrogen supply fails we have about 18-20 days worth left in the tanks before they run dry. Even then I had a staff member checking every couple of days over Christmas anyway. I wrote an R script to analyse data from the tanks https://rhizobia.nz/r/N2-tanks.html to get a good idea of usage.
Just strange to me that a much more well funded organisation didn't do better.
Well, if reported to the police, foul play or neglect was involved.
The article says: "Currently there is no indication that it was due to outside influence but the police report was done to cover all bases."