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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 se… (www.autonocion.com)
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[-] KittyCat@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago

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

[-] d5273@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago

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

[-] lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

"Today marks the successful delivery of the project on time and under budget." I dream of hearing these words more often.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

I mean, I work in the public transport industry and, believe it or not, most project are brought in on time and on budget, but "competent people are competent" doesn't get rage clicks.

[-] lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Too true unfortunately. I like to champion a local public transport project that beat the timeline and came in under budget.

But when the newspaper doesn't like the government and wants to stir up controversy they won't ever discuss all the times it worked perfectly, or try to pretend it didn't.

Nothing makes me happier than seeing a plan come together though.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

OPP (Ontario Police) pulled over someone for speeding 2 days ago. Kind of surprising I haven't seen the article yet.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 14 points 1 day ago

Headline says working reactor and article says

It had been shut down since March 2023

[-] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

It could probably still work though... I'm guessing that's what they mean by that. Still misleading.

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