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Inside Simmons' factory, where a 140-kg roller runs 100,000 cycles??? and now the steel wire is custom-built too
10+ hour, 38+ min ago (436+ words) A 140-kilogram roller — roughly the size of a drum barrel — travels back and forth across a mattress. A counter mounted beside it ticks up with every pass. It is one of Simmons' durability tests, and a single mattress endures more…...
An Indianapolis company wants to press uranium gas into ceramic pellets the size of a pencil eraser so America stops importing reactor fuel, and the 240-megawatt reactor it feeds runs on a coolant no American refinery has made since 1997, 82 percent of it refined in China
11+ hour, 38+ min ago (1238+ words) Uranium fuel pellets are about the least glamorous object in the energy business. Ceramic cylinders roughly the size of a pencil eraser, stacked inside metal tubes, made in more or less the same way for sixty years. Nobody puts them…...
The United States spent $13 million on a tunnel-boring machine for a Nevada nuclear waste site, and nobody wants to buy it back
16+ hour, 3+ min ago (436+ words) Home - Construction - The United States spent $13 million on a tunnel-boring machine for a Nevada nuclear waste site, and nobody wants to buy it back An engineering marvel has sat idle for almost 30 years at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las…...
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
21+ hour, 38+ 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…...
Temiskaming cobalt refinery expansion beginning to 'take shape"
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (618+ words) Structural steel is being erected and concrete is being poured for the refitting and expansion of a one-of-a-kind cobalt refinery in the Temiskaming region. Electric Battery Materials has been delivering brick-by-brick updates of construction activity this summer at its brownfield…...
A 367 ton steel cylinder was lowered into a concrete shaft on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, and the crew had to seat the reactor vessel to within the thickness of a sheet of paper
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (819+ words) The cylinder hangs level, a few feet above an open concrete shaft. It is 43 feet long, about 15 feet across, and it weighs 367 tons. The shaft below is barely wider than the cylinder. The crane can lift four times that load,…...
Canadian Bruce Power Gets Nuclear Approval for New Hot Cell To Boost Cancer-Fighting Isotope Supply
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (726+ words) The development could help Bruce Power move more of the isotope production process onto its own site, reducing the need to transport irradiated material and making the supply chain more efficient. The company says the facility will also allow workers…...
We Energies wants to buy power from Point Beach nuclear plant through 2053
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (129+ words) As it works to meet increasing energy demands from large data centers, We Energies has informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the energy utility will continue to purchase energy from the Point Beach Nuclear Plan through 2053, according to a…...
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
2+ day, 14+ 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…...
We Energies Deal Would Buy Power From Point Beach Nuclear Plant Into 2050s
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (897+ words) State PSC must approve it. Consumer advocacy group questions whether costs too high. The Point Beach Nuclear Plant along Lake Michigan in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. (Yodel2010/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) We Energies plans to continue purchasing energy from a nuclear plant…...