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A 706-foot boring machine cut north under the Potomac all summer with most of its body still parked in the daylight, while a crane fed the rest down a 100-foot shaft 30 tons at a time, and with the last car bolted on it has 350 feet to go before it stops for two months
A 9,700-pound drone with 28 lights on it set a 10-inch square down on the seafloor 16,863 feet off American Samoa, scooped out the metal lumps growing inside that square, and bottled the water just above them to test whether a radioactive gas can find more
A 45,000-ton battleship was pushed four feet off her pier in Norfolk by tugboats, her first move in 26 years, so crews could swap two rubber fenders, a morning’s job on a normal pier that took a year of planning because every phone, power and water line aboard crosses that gap
A 1,014-megawatt nuclear plant on the Finnish coast is pulling the casings and internals out of all eight of its low-pressure turbines during an outage that keeps one reactor running, and the rebuild adds 38 megawatts while the reactors make exactly the same heat