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A 282-foot concrete spillway folded into zigzags now stands beside a Michigan dam that gave way and emptied its lake, and the folds stretch its spilling edge to 590 feet, so once a 200-year flood arrives it starts pouring water off on its own without anyone opening a gate
A 19,960-ton freighter hauling 421 containers to Romania took three hits from drone boats 21 nautical miles off a NATO country’s Black Sea coast, its 18 sailors abandoned ship 12 minutes after the alarm, and it sank around midnight, the fifth merchant vessel struck off that coast in 22 days
A 900-megawatt reactor on a French estuary shut itself down as crews readied one of its backup diesel generators for a routine test, 53 days after the same kind of check tripped it, and stayed off the grid for 92 hours with a sister unit already down for maintenance
A 37-ton drill pulled a cutting head 112 feet up through the rock of a Canadian potash mine, then did it again right beside the first hole, turning the pair into one 49-foot-long chamber and dropping more than 6,000 tons of rock onto the level below