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
  • KittyCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    8 hours ago

    Sooooo… They performed routine eol maintenance on their steam turbines and that is news worthy why?

    • 0x0@infosec.pubEnglish
      7·
      4 hours ago

      Headline says working reactor and article says

      It had been shut down since March 2023

    • d5273@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      8 hours ago

      “Routine maintenance successfully completed,” kinda feels like uplifting news at this point.