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Canada is cutting holes in the roofs of four reactor buildings outside Toronto to lift out 48 boilers, twelve per reactor, and crews are rehearsing the cut on a full-scale concrete dome built 40 feet off the ground purely so nobody practices on a real one
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (1281+ words) Most nuclear news is about things going up. New builds, small modular reactors, groundbreaking ceremonies with clean hard hats and gold shovels. The biggest nuclear job on the continent right now runs the other way. Next month Ontario takes four…...
While every other thorium pitch needs a new reactor, a Chicago company is dropping thoria pellets into existing CANDU bundles, same geometry, no new core — Idaho rodlets passed 60,000 megawatt-days per ton, a working CANDU-6 is modeled at six times natural uranium
17+ hour, 46+ min ago (1550+ words) Thorium pitches almost always arrive with a reactor attached. Molten salt, pebble bed, something that ships inside a 40-foot container: the fuel gets the headline, and the fine print says you have to build an entirely new machine before you…...
Autonomous robots now live on desert solar rows, wake up after dark, brush the glass dry with no water and park to recharge off their own panel — dirty glass costs 7 to 50 percent of a farm's output, and after a dust storm it can hit 80 percent
23+ hour, 43+ min ago (568+ words) Deserts are just about the perfect place to put solar panels. The sun barely takes a day off, land is cheap, and there’s not much standing around to cast a shadow. They’re also the single worst place on the planet…...
A 22-inch Halliburton well is going sideways under a Texas cow pasture, triple the usual oil hole, so a 5,000-pound nuclear-waste canister can go down and come back up — no spent fuel on the pad, just the drill, a hole opener, and a warning about snakes
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (1160+ words) Horizontal drilling is the reason the United States stopped worrying quite so much about importing oil. You sink a hole a mile or two straight down, bend the bit until it is running sideways, and push the well out through…...
A 9-megawatt, 39,000-panel solar array is sitting next to the Indy 500 backstretch, 68 acres, the largest at any sports venue on Earth — the loudest thousand acres in American sport, and not a single kilowatt goes into the Speedway
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (1421+ words) Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the loudest thousand acres in American sport. Thirty-three cars, a 2.5-mile oval, 230-plus mph down the straights, and a century of local identity built on the sound of engines that do not care about your fuel…...
A Dutch crew threaded a boat between 139 spinning wind turbines off The Hague and pulled up the first commercial-scale seaweed crop ever grown inside a working wind farm — four nets of sugar kelp, 11 miles out, in water the towers were already fencing off
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (1384+ words) Sailing a boat into a working offshore wind farm is the kind of thing most captains actively avoid. The towers are the height of skyscrapers, the blades are moving, and the water between them has spent years as dead space…...
While 82,000 solar panels now shade 11,200 cars at Disneyland Paris, the 36 gigawatt-hours those canopies make each year do not run Space Mountain — the Swiss builder sold the entire output, and the park never self-consumes a kilowatt-hour
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1461+ words) Anyone who has parked at a theme park in August knows the walk from the car to the gate. The asphalt radiates, the door handle is too hot to touch when you come back, and the lot itself is the…...
A 6.6-pound Canadian missile the length of a baseball bat chases a laser dot somebody on the ground is holding on the drone, blows its fragments straight ahead instead of sideways, and the man holding that dot gets twenty-five seconds
5+ day, 31+ min ago (1716+ words) The math on drone defense has been broken since roughly 2022, and everyone in the business knows it. You fire a $4 million interceptor at a $35,000 drone, you win the engagement and lose the war, because the other side can build a…...
700,000 solar panels have been sitting on the largest Soviet firing range in Germany since 2009, put there by a developer whose rent paid to have the shells hauled out first, and the army has now frozen those handovers to take some of the ground back
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (456+ words) Germany digs up more than 2,000 tons of unexploded munitions every year, most of it left over from World War II, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Before any construction project starts, from a home extension to new rail track, the ground has…...
Two 120-ton pumps the height of a three-story building each move an Olympic pool of water over the Dutch sea defenses every 50 seconds, and the country has just decided they are not big enough any more
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (1251+ words) Everyone who has ever flown into Amsterdam has landed below sea level. Schiphol sits on the bed of a lake the Dutch pumped dry in the 1850s, and a good chunk of the country around it only exists because somebody keeps…...