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A 200-pound Iron Dome interceptor made to stop rockets fired from up to 43 miles away came off an Arkansas line fully built for the first time, after more than a decade of its American parts going overseas for final assembly, and the plant plans a version for the Marines
A 471-megawatt reactor in Slovakia started climbing toward full power at 3:33 in the afternoon, its operator told the neighbors to expect loud tests on the safety valves that blow off steam, and three weeks in, the unit’s still drawing 17.7 megawatts from the grid
A 1,653-ton German machine named Mayrit spent 147 days grinding 1.7 miles under Madrid and dipping beneath a river and a freeway, and her 31-foot cutting wheel came out barely worn, needing only its outer cutters swapped before she headed for the main train station
Two 105-ton machines, each 52 feet tall, were set in place at a 300-megawatt reactor that will be the world’s first power plant cooled by molten lead instead of water, to pull droplets out of its steam before they can erode the turbine blades