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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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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
BWRX-300 reactor GE Vernova rendering

A 300-megawatt reactor designed to cool itself without pumps just became the first small commercial reactor cleared for construction in America, four months ahead of the regulator’s own schedule, on the riverbank where an earlier federal reactor never got built at all

10.05.2026
hudson tunnel boring machine

A 1,680-ton boring machine turned its 28-foot cutterhead for the first time in a New Jersey pit, built to grind out the first new rail tunnel under the Hudson in more than a century, and the 200,000 riders a day who cross the river still squeeze through one pair of tracks

10.05.2026
ITER vacuum vessel sector convoy

A 440-ton slice of steel rolled through the gates of the world’s biggest fusion experiment before dawn in southern France, the ninth and last piece of a plasma chamber that will weigh 5,732 tons welded together, and each slice already carries 93 miles of factory welds

10.05.2026
University of Birmingham Gagneur W-Cr PIX EBSD micrographs PIX tungsten alloy

A tungsten alloy held at 2,282°F for 100 hours shrank the crystals inside it by 60 percent without a single pass through a rolling mill, because two mismatched lattices build up strain while it sits there, doing to the metal what a steel mill does by crushing it

10.05.2026
Perry nuclear plant

A 516-foot cooling tower stands unused beside its working twin at a Lake Erie nuclear plant, built for a second reactor that was canceled with the tower already finished, and the plant is now preparing to squeeze 213 more megawatts out of the one reactor it did get

10.05.2026
Direct Rail Services Drigg train

365 trains hauled 364,000 tons of clean stone into Britain’s oldest nuclear waste site over a year and a half, so its earliest trenches can be sealed under a clay cover that swells shut when rain hits it, and the waste itself never has to move at all

10.04.2026
TRISO fuel pebble Idaho National Laboratory

The first new commercial nuclear fuel plant America has built in more than 50 years finished its shell in 10 months, sized to press uranium into 700,000 billiard-ball spheres a year, and the first reactor it will feed is still waiting for permission to pour concrete

10.04.2026
Lionfish remus 300 underwater drone

A 155-pound drone submarine that two people can carry and toss off the edge of a dock dives 1,000 feet and works 30-hour missions hunting sea mines, and the Navy just placed its biggest order of them yet, with options that run the fleet to 200 vehicles

10.04.2026
Flammanville EPR edf reactor

A 1,600-megawatt reactor on the French coast shut down at three minutes to midnight for a year of work, 20,000 separate tasks that include trading its steel lid for a new 109-ton one that reached the plant by river barge, cargo ship and road convoy

10.04.2026
ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor HFIR

While the californium a Tennessee reactor makes goes out to start new reactors, the leftovers now come back out too: milligrams of berkelium, micrograms of einsteinium and picograms of fermium, the last pulled 99.93 percent pure

10.04.2026
Oak Ridge nuclear fuel triso

A 215,000-square-foot nuclear fuel plant got its frame, walls and roof finished in Tennessee, built to press uranium into billiard-ball spheres at 700,000 a year for up to 11 reactors, and the machines that do the pressing still have to move indoors

10.04.2026
TEAG Agri-PV Bad Klosterlausnitz solar panels

Nearly 12,000 solar panels raised 10 to 13 feet over a blueberry field went live in eastern Germany, set high enough for farm machinery to pass underneath, and before the first post went in, ordnance crews pulled hand grenades out of the soil the bushes now grow in

10.04.2026
Moab UMTRA tailings train

A 90-foot pile of uranium mill sand on the bank of the Colorado River has gone north by train in sealed containers, 17 million tons hauled 30 miles into a cell built to hold it for 1,000 years, and the only digging left now is the dirt the pile sat on

10.03.2026
Sarah Guppy TBM Hinkley Point C

An 88-ton tunnel boring machine punched out of the seabed off England after five months of being shoved along by hydraulic jacks on shore, finishing a 2,034-foot tunnel with one job, carrying the fish a nuclear power plant pulls in with its cooling seawater back out to sea

10.03.2026
Fukushima robotic arm TEPCO

A 72-foot robotic arm began squeezing into a wrecked reactor in Japan through a 22-inch opening on Friday, with months of cutting steel out of its path by water jet ahead of it, and the two grabs before it recovered less than a gram of the 880 tons still in the plant

10.03.2026
Fehmarnbelt element immersion IVY

A 712-foot concrete box weighing 81,000 tons was lowered onto the Baltic seabed by a vessel clamped to both of its ends, stretching an 11-mile undersea crossing to Germany to its first 2,950 feet, and 85 more boxes still have to follow it down

10.03.2026
Wellington North solar farm sheep

755,000 solar panels in Australia hide 4,200 sheep so well that drivers kept posting there were none inside, because a merino stands knee-high and the tilting rows read as one sheet of glass from the road — so the farmer rounded the flock up between the panels and hit record

10.03.2026
Webuild Aurora TBM bore machine

A 1,764-ton tunnel borer was taken apart after a 1.2-mile dig, hauled across an Italian river on a temporary steel bridge and rebuilt on the far side, where its 41-foot cutting head has started a second tunnel with 18 motors supplying 6.3 megawatts

10.02.2026
Waratah Super Battery Munmorah Akaysha

An 850-megawatt battery on the site of a demolished coal plant is now cleared to run flat out in Australia, and its job is to sit beside the state’s biggest power lines and dump its output in milliseconds when one drops — so the wires run harder than they safely could alone

10.02.2026
GICON Schipkau wind turbine

A 1,198-foot wind turbine in eastern Germany just locked in at full height, its hub now sits 49 feet above the blade tips of the 935-foot machine that held the record, and the whole country has exactly one structure left standing taller — by about 10 feet

10.02.2026
EnerVenue Aqueous Metal Cell

A 6.8-foot battery that is a sealed hydrogen tank with electrodes inside just entered mass production, using the chemistry that ran the Hubble telescope’s first batteries for 19 years at a dozen charge cycles a day — and each tube is built to last 30,000 cycles on the ground

10.02.2026
boring machine sheffield forgemasters

A tunnel boring machine is cutting a 1,050-foot storm drain under a British steel plant that forges nuclear submarine parts, because a stream buried beneath the factory spills into it when storms overload the pipe — and new pumps will hand the river 2,113 gallons a second

10.02.2026
Oregon State solar sheep

A six-acre field of solar panels hanging 3.6 feet over an Oregon pasture grew 38 percent less grass than the open field beside it, and the lambs grazing under the glass gained the same weight anyway, while the same ground ran a 1.4-megawatt power plant the whole time

10.02.2026
TAE Technologies Norm fusion machine

An 80-foot fusion machine in California had its priciest sections pulled off both ends — the quartz tubes that fired two plasma rings together at 670,000 mph — and the shortened machine still makes its plasma, with eight particle beams building the magnetic trap instead

10.02.2026
oak ridge reactor

A 32-foot nuclear reactor came out of its Tennessee pool two years ago, and the building around it won’t meet the excavators until 2029, because it gets stripped from the inside first — 300,000 pounds of lead out so far, and 157,000 contaminated bricks packed by 20 workers

10.01.2026
Akkerman SL60C TBM boring machines

Three tunnel boring machines pushed 42-, 48- and 66-inch sewer pipes beneath a Nebraska creek, 525 feet of tunneling through wet clay held open by slurry pressure, so a 90-inch steel pipe hanging in the open air over the water could come down

10.01.2026
Rough River Dam scale model

A 1,590-foot dam of compacted earth in Kentucky sits on limestone that slowly dissolves in water, so before touching the real thing, the Army Corps rebuilt it 57 feet wide and 100 feet long in a Mississippi lab and ran water through the model more than 200 times

10.01.2026
Robbins TBM MDM5000

A 303-ton machine that carves rectangular tunnels so mine trucks can drive straight in behind it flooded 2,300 feet down in Mexico’s oldest silver mine, took 14 months to put right, backed itself 1,640 feet away from the fault, and is cutting a second tunnel

10.01.2026
colorado agrivoltaics solar panels

Semi-transparent solar panels set into the wooden crates that EV fast chargers ship in grew more lettuce than the open plot beside them in all four colors of glass, because the panels cut soil temperatures by up to 18 degrees on days the air hit 104 — and plain gray won

10.01.2026
Orano Crystal River reactor transport

A 35-foot retired nuclear reactor was filled with its own dismantled parts and cut into three sections, then shipped with its lid in four packages across the Gulf of Mexico, with the heaviest taking a 980-mile detour through Texas at 8 mph

10.01.2026
TVA Raccoon Mountain powerhouse

Raccoon Mountain: 200-Ton Spherical Valves Rebuilt in 60 Days

09.30.2026
Oklo Groves reactor Texas

Oklo Texas: 100-Watt Reactor Goes Critical on Former Ranch Land

09.30.2026
American Augers 625 rig

Canadian River: 9,695-Foot Pipeline Hole Meets From Both Banks

09.30.2026
constellationenergy three mile island reactor

Three Mile Island: Healthy Unit Cleared to Restart Beside Debris Twin

09.30.2026
CORE Electric substation Castle Rock

Colorado Substation Dark Twice in Two Days From Two Squirrels

09.30.2026
Los Alamos Area G waste pipes

Los Alamos: 158 Waste Pipes Roll Toward New Mexico Salt Bed

09.29.2026
Electrified Thermal Joule Hive bricks

Ceramic Brick Battery Heats Cement Kiln Without Burnout Wires

09.29.2026
Enercon E-175 blade lifter wind turbine

Black Forest: 279-Foot Wind Turbine Blade Falls on Own Truck

09.29.2026
Hartwell Lake saddle dike Army Corps

Clemson Dike Seeping; Lake Dropped 4 Feet From Football Stadium

09.29.2026
San Onofre nuclear plant domes

California Nuclear Domes Come Down; 3.6 Million Pounds of Fuel Stay

09.29.2026
Fourth Power thermal battery

Bedford Graphite Battery Stores Power at Up to 4,352 Degrees

09.28.2026
Gross Dam RCC raise, Denver Water

Gross Dam Colorado: 471-Foot Wall Grows While Court Weighs Water

09.28.2026
First Solar Series 6 Rio Tinto Kennecott solar plant

Kennecott Utah: 71,000 Solar Panels Use Metal From Mine Sludge

09.28.2026
USS Enterprise CVN-65 Newport News Shipbuilding

A 1,123-foot aircraft carrier with eight nuclear reactors will be towed to Alabama and taken apart around them, because the reactor block the Navy cuts whole out of a submarine is too big to lift out of a carrier — and nobody has ever taken a nuclear carrier apart before

09.28.2026
Infrabel solar tunnel Antwerp

Belgium: 16,000 Solar Panels Blanket 2-Mile High-Speed Rail Tunnel

09.28.2026
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