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
  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Oh my! They were talking about the “hot” to “cold” heat exchanger then. I never thought people would cut open a nuclear reactors protective building except for dismanteling. How the heck do they think they get it closed up again in a safe manner? They basically shot the integrity of the outer protective layer then.