Canada just cut a hole in the roof of a working nuclear reactor, hauled out eight steam generators weighing 100 tons each, and lowered new ones into the same hole, bringing the reactor back online seven months early to run another 35 years
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Most of the noise around nuclear right now goes to new reactors. Small modular reactors on slick conference slides, fusion machines in startup press kits, the
      • Heydo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Or 907 kg. So almost a metric ton, which is 1,000 kg (or 1.000 kg for some).

        This shit isn’t at all confusing /s

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      It’s what we call the things Yanks and North Koreans use to measure weight since ‘ton’ is assumed to be a metric ton for the rest of the world.

      (Yes, I’ve seen the Canadian weights and measures flowchart but this is still a funny jab)