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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

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 se…

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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
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    Bruce Power cut into the roof of an operating nuclear station, hauled eight steam generators weighing 100 metric tons each (about 110 US tons) out through the top, and lowered brand-new ones into the same hole. Then it brought the reactor back online on June 8, according to Bruce Power, seven months ahead of schedule.

    I was picturing some burly Aussie-Canadian lumberjack called Bruce Power doing all this without breaking a sweat.

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      Bruce Power

      burly Aussie-Canadian lumberjack

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      He didn’t even ask permission. He just started cutting the roof and nobody had the courage to ask him what he was doing.

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        Hard hat and a white truck, you can do anything you ever wanted.

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      What the fuck is a US ton…

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        That was more surprising to me than the actual article.

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        2000 lb

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          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

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      g’day Bruce; Bruce; Bruce.

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      He’s related to Max Power.

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      Plot Twist: Bruce Power is the son of Rowsdower and The Kid.

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