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Luis Reyes

With more than 14 years covering the automotive industry, Luis Reyes is a seasoned voice in the field. A law graduate, he channels his curiosity and expertise into the detailed analysis of national and international regulations that shape the automotive world. At Autonocion.com, Luis combines his strong legal background with a deep passion for vehicles — especially those that have left a mark on automotive history. His experience writing for multiple brands across the industry has established him as a trusted authority. Luis is committed to sharing his expertise and enthusiasm with enthusiasts and industry professionals alike, with a firm belief in the continuous evolution and innovation driving the auto industry forward.
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Marriott Drilling rig Vilaflor Tenerife

A 9,843-foot well bored into the slope of a volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands hit water hotter than boiling, held liquid by the pressure down there, and no geothermal hole in the country had gone that deep, not even the 8,865-foot one inside a national park

10.14.2026
Last Energy PWR-5 RELLIS reactor

A 5-megawatt reactor sealed in a 1,000-ton steel vault on a Texas university campus got federal sign-off on its final safety analysis, one review away from permission to go critical, with the full-size core of a 20-megawatt reactor fueled for a quarter of the power

10.13.2026
Oak Ridge Building 3029 hot cell manipulator arms

A broken mechanical arm that reaches through a concrete wall into a shielded Tennessee lab room was worked by hand to repair the only other arm, whose hand came loose mid-job, and the 18 high-dose items they were pulling out didn’t wait up to six months for a replacement

10.13.2026
ContourGlobal Project Sterling solar Mohave County Arizona

More than 760,000 solar panels are going up across 2,000 acres of the Mojave Desert off old Route 66, with more than 300 battery containers beside them to keep the power flowing up to 16 hours a day, and a single carmaker has already signed up for about 90% of it

10.13.2026
NuCube NuSun microreactor

A 250-kilowatt induction furnace in Utah’s coal country is set to get heat pipes so it can fake the core of a nuclear reactor with no uranium inside, its heat dialed up and down like the real thing, and the reactor it stands in for is designed for up to 60 times that power

10.13.2026
Douglas CCS platform Liverpool Bay

A 4,800-ton platform was installed off England and Wales to send carbon dioxide down into three emptied gas fields through a pipeline that carried natural gas the other way, and its first phase can store nearly 5 million tons a year, what close to a million gas cars put out

10.13.2026
Chooz A reactor vessel lift

A 209-ton French reactor vessel was lifted over 32 feet out of its pit after 61 years, with a jack pushing up from a floor that had a foot of loose fill where the drawings showed concrete, and the floor has to be sealed before the pool is flooded to cut the vessel apart

10.13.2026
ss united states okaloosa county

A 45,400-ton ocean liner stripped of both funnels has spent 19 months tied up in Mobile, Alabama, and tugboats will tow her out so a Florida county can sink her 22 nautical miles off Destin in November, about 12 miles from an aircraft carrier already sunk as a reef

10.12.2026
NIST NCNR reactor

A 15-ton plug that moves fuel around a Maryland research reactor kept cracking the snap rings holding its bearings at a fraction of their rated load, a heated salt bath cracked two of three test rings, and they were the wrong steel, so screws hold the bearings now

10.12.2026
Onet Technologies découpe laser pressuriseur Fessenheim

A 1,455-pound slab of steel more than 7.8 inches thick was cut out of a retired French reactor’s pressure tank by a laser on a remote-controlled arm in a few hours, after 18 months of planning, so engineers can see what four decades of heat did to its hottest weld

10.12.2026
Saronic Corsair Panama SENAN

A 24-foot American drone boat came to Panama for an 11-day exercise and never left, and it now patrols the coast for drug runners next to Panama’s coast guard, carrying radar and cameras, topping 40 mph and running more than 1,000 nautical miles on diesel

10.12.2026
Saronic Corsair

A 24-foot American drone boat built to haul 1,000 pounds drove into an Iranian naval base with two others and hit a submarine hanging out of the water from a yellow gantry, the first time American forces used sea drones in combat, and none of the three came back

10.11.2026
AKW Stade Sprengung Abluftkamin

A 262-foot stack at a German nuclear plant tipped onto its side within seconds of the charges going off, and the 157-foot steel sphere that held the reactor comes down next, cleared to be cut up for scrap, so the site can stop being a nuclear plant after 21 years of teardown

10.11.2026
Forschungsbohrung Köln-Dellbrück drill rig

A 66-foot drill rig on a soccer field in Cologne, walled in by stacked containers 33 feet high, cored day and night for almost 10 weeks down 2,631 feet through a 380-million-year-old coral reef and hit water, and now the hole gets plugged and the field goes back to the city

10.11.2026
USS Kidd DD-661 dazzle camouflage

A 2,050-ton World War II destroyer is ready to sail home to Baton Rouge, but she can only float back into her riverbank cradle with the Mississippi at 32 feet, a line the river now sits nearly 20 feet below, and the last time it got that high she was sitting in dry dock

10.11.2026
John Keys Pump Generating Plant

Six 65,000-horsepower pumps have spent 75 years pushing water 280 feet uphill beside the largest power plant in the United States to irrigate 670,000 acres of farmland, and the building they work from keeps most of its floors hidden under the reservoir itself

10.11.2026
TSE canopée agrivoltaïque Souleuvre-en-Bocage

A French company raised 5,184 solar panels 16 feet over a Normandy dairy pasture, and when the open field nearby dried out in July, the grass underneath stayed green and on hot days the cows in their shade grazed until noon while the herd in the sun headed in at 9:30

10.11.2026
Cernavoda CANDU reactor 6

Two 705-megawatt reactors on the Danube have been off since the summer because the river dropped too low for their cooling-water pumps, Romania is letting water out of three reservoirs to prop it up, and the river is still carrying under a third of its usual October flow

10.11.2026
St. Lucie nuclear plant Florida

Two Florida reactors pull the Atlantic in through three pipes that open 1,500 feet offshore, and sea turtles ride them into a cooling canal nearly a mile long, where biologists have netted or hand-caught them 19,987 times in 47 years

10.10.2026
Mesabi Metallics blast Nashwauk

A million pounds of explosives shook 1.3 million tons of iron ore loose in a Minnesota pit, six times the mine’s first production blast, at a plant that sat half built for a decade, and its pellets are headed for a planned 10-million-ton steel mill in Iowa

10.10.2026
BWXT BANR microreactor

Two 22-megawatt nuclear reactors will be built in Ontario, carried to the New Brunswick coast inside a fully assembled power plant on a heavy-lift ship and fueled only after they arrive, and the US Army has already picked a 20-megawatt version for a Kentucky base

10.10.2026
Hydro Tasmania Poatina penstock robot

A 5,900-foot steel pipe feeds six turbines 490 feet under a Tasmanian mountain range, and it was drained so a robot could blast off the old paint, then heaters and dehumidifiers ran inside it around the clock, because the new epoxy needs the steel above 50 degrees to cure

10.10.2026
SAFE Boats Mark VI patrol boat

An 85-ton American patrol boat ran at the head of a pack of drone boats in Michigan, sent drone aircraft up and took one back aboard while still moving, on a hull that draws less than 5 feet of water and tops 40 mph on two waterjets

10.10.2026
Rosatom PEB-106 reactor

A 19,000-ton Russian nuclear power plant with no engine now has both of its 58-megawatt reactors built, and tugboats will haul it to a copper mine across the Bering Strait from Alaska, where reactor heat piped into its ballast tanks will keep the sea ice off its hull

10.10.2026
DWR Oroville Dam River Valve Outlet System

Two 160,000-pound valves rode a barge through a 35-foot tunnel into the base of the tallest dam in the country, behind a pair that has been there since the dam was built, because when the lake drops below the powerhouse intakes, they’re the last way to let water out

10.09.2026
HZDR nuclear chernobyl

Six specks of Chernobyl reactor fuel no wider than 0.002 inches spent 40 years in the soil with their crystal structure still largely intact, and German scientists found it by rotating each one through 2,000 angles in an X-ray beam wider than the specks themselves

10.09.2026
Caroline TBM Grain to Tilbury

A 511-ton German machine named Caroline cut 1.4 miles through chalk under the Thames and came out underwater, into a shaft flooded on purpose so groundwater could not pour in through the hole she made, leaving a tunnel for 400,000-volt cables 49 days early

10.09.2026
MAX Power Lawson natural hydrogen well rig

A Canadian company sank a well 7,874 feet into the Saskatchewan prairie, pulled up 169 feet of rock where its hydrogen readings ran highest, and moved its next rig 19 miles out so the drill could reach a layer of salt tight enough to keep hydrogen from leaking away

10.09.2026
Xcel Energy Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant

A 671-megawatt reactor on the Mississippi shut down for repairs the day before a winter bass tournament, the warm water it sends back to the river stopped with it, and 84 anglers found thousands of dead bass, walleye and pike where a shutdown three years earlier killed 230

10.09.2026
TREAT reactor Idaho National Laboratory core

A 19,000-megawatt air-cooled reactor in Idaho fires 80-millisecond pulses into used fuel rods to make them fail on purpose, and 192 neutron detectors watch the uranium move inside the sealed steel capsule through a 2.75-inch slot in the graphite, 1,000 times a second

10.08.2026
Webuild Genoa breakwater mega caisson Tronds Barge 33

A 16,500-ton concrete box floated off a barge that sinks itself 66 feet, followed tugboats out of an Italian harbor, swallowed seawater and settled onto gravel columns on a seabed up to 164 feet down, and the wall it joins runs just under a mile of the 3.8 miles planned

10.08.2026
TBM Roberta Grand Paris Express Gennevilliers

A 2,200-ton boring machine named Roberta dug 3.6 miles of subway under Paris as Houda, was taken apart and shipped 1,370 miles to Italy and back for a rebuild, and now starts 4.3 miles of new tunnel with the 187-ton cutting wheel that came home by truck, ship and barge

10.08.2026
paluel nuclear plant

A 1,300-megawatt French reactor had all 80,000 titanium tubes in its condenser pulled and replaced during its 40-year inspection, more than a million holes got brushed clean before the new tubes slid in, and the old metal is coming back out as 276 tons of titanium

10.08.2026
First Light Fusion M3 machine Yarnton

A 44-ton British fusion machine dumped 10 million amps into a target of nested shells in two millionths of a second and crushed it in stages, with no fuel inside and nothing lit, and the biggest machine of its kind, in New Mexico, peaks at 26 million

10.08.2026
Herrenknecht AVN 1200 microtunneling machine

A 14-ton German boring machine pulled its cutterhead in and backed 1,290 feet out of the curve it had just bored under a New Jersey bay, through the 129 steel pipes pushed in behind it, because it had hit a stalled sewer tunnel in the side and had no exit pit to leave through

10.08.2026
SNLE Le Vigilant Triomphant-class Marine Nationale

A 15,800-ton, 453-foot French submarine pushed a ballistic missile weighing more than 110,000 pounds out of one of its 16 tubes from under the Atlantic off Brittany after 18 months in dry dock, and the only other flight of this version took off from a pad on land

10.08.2026
Portsmouth X-333 Empress excavator shears DOE

A 240-ton excavator named the Empress bites through steel I-beams at a former uranium plant in Ohio with 56,000-pound shears, took down the first corner of a 33-acre building a month ahead of schedule, and its blades last 40 to 80 hours before they get rotated like tires

10.07.2026
Nabors PACE-B drilling oil rig

A 147-foot oil rig has spent more than 30 days turning diamond bits into an Oregon volcano for the company that melts granite with a microwave beam, toward a 15,000-foot hole that will read the heat in the rock, and the beam stays in a Texas quarry with a 330-foot hole to its name

10.07.2026
MITICA beam source Padua fusion reactor

A 16.5-ton box built to test the million-volt hydrogen beam that will heat a fusion reactor passed its acceptance tests in Italy with 1,280 beam holes lined up to within a hundredth of a sheet of paper, and of the 40 megawatts it puts out, 16.5 are rated to reach the plasma

10.07.2026
Paducah converter segmentation

A fissile uranium tank nearly twice the size of a cement-mixer drum came out of a 2.1-million-square-foot building in Kentucky and got cut up, the first of close to 500 tracked by mass, volume and geometry, and the 497 next door went from 14 days apiece to two a day

10.07.2026
Antora thermal battery modules

A 5-gigawatt-hour stack of carbon blocks heated to 4,352 degrees by running current straight through them has fed a South Dakota ethanol plant 50 megawatts around the clock since May, and a 5.8-gigawatt-hour one is now signed for a second ethanol plant in Kansas

10.07.2026
Research Instruments Alsymex ITER torus cryopump

A 17,600-pound steel pump built to empty the world’s biggest fusion reactor works by freezing gas in place at 452 degrees below zero, and the one gas that refuses to stick, helium, gets caught instead by 15 pounds of charcoal ground from coconut shells

10.07.2026
Prufrock-MB2 boring machine tesla

A 400-ton American boring machine clamps 4 million pounds of grip against the walls of the tunnel it has just cut under Nashville to shove a million pounds into limestone that tests at 14,000 psi, and it is now racing its twin, in the rock since February, toward the airport

10.07.2026
DC Water Mary tunnel boring machine Potomac

A 1,200-ton boring machine stretching 700 feet was assembled at the bottom of a 100-foot hole in a Washington park, because the complete machine could not fit down the shaft, and after her first 350 feet of digging she parks for two months to trade river teeth for rock

10.06.2026
Palisades fuel loading Holtec

A 12-foot bundle of 216 fuel rods has held up the first American reactor ever brought back from retirement for five weeks by leaning over in its core, a one-off tool is being built from scratch just to lift it back out, and the restart due early next year no longer has a date

10.06.2026
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Lake Ontario

Four 516-megawatt reactors outside Toronto went dark one after another over eight days, the last sliding from 260 megawatts to zero on a Wednesday afternoon, and the January rebuild pulls 1,520 fuel channels and 48 boilers out of them and lays a 0.9-mile pipe into Lake Ontario

10.06.2026
Herrenknecht AVN microtunneling machine

A 77-inch steel water main was threaded through 2.3 miles of new tunnels under a river, a rail line and two roads in Calgary, and the pipe it replaces stayed pressurized nearby, because it carries 60 percent of the city’s drinking water and has burst twice in two years

10.06.2026
EWS agri-PV Bruck an der Leitha solar panels

Rows of solar panels 9.2 feet tall fold 70 degrees apart to let the combine drive through an Austrian wheat field, and in a drought year the wheat between them came in 14 percent ahead of the open field next door, because a moving band of shade keeps the soil damp

10.06.2026
ENN EXL-50U tokamak

A fusion machine 12.7 feet across slammed hydrogen into boron more than 100 million times a second, burning a fuel you can trace to the laundry aisle as borax, and the reaction threw out three helium nuclei instead of the neutrons that batter a reactor’s walls

10.06.2026
Akaysha Energy Waratah Super Battery

An 850-megawatt battery pushed 700 megawatts into the grid for two straight hours, pulled almost 850 back out of it, and the grid operator has now cleared it to run at full power, nearly a year after a transformer failure cut its grid contract in half

10.06.2026
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