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A 44-acre nuclear dump in Pennsylvania where a fuel plant buried its waste in 10 trenches has sent off its first truckloads of contaminated soil, dug a little at a time inside buildings built over the trenches, bagged into steel containers and driven 60 miles to a train bound for Utah
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@roberthenson ROOKIE · 7 hours
What should be unacceptable is shipping it to a destination within 50 miles of 2 million people.
A nearly 23-foot tunnel boring machine just broke through into its first station under downtown Toronto after cutting about 4,265 feet and lining the tunnel with roughly 780 concrete rings, and its twin is due to punch through right beside it in December
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@jpmihok ROOKIE · 3 days
Why is it expressed in "miles"
It’s Finally Time to Clear the Roads (And Lakes) Of the Cybertruck as the World’s Ugliest Vehicle Gets Discontinued
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@raysmith ROOKIE · 3 days
Just say you don't like Elon, and be done with it.
There are those who create great businesses, and those who sulk with a pen....
@merryl ROOKIE · 2 days
Ah yes, and there are some people who publish well written articles about their opinions and people who post pathetic comments proving the a…
@aslamaliyu ROOKIE · 19 hours
Bro this is the most bias posts I've ever seen as someone whos sold and bought cybertrucks the used car market doesnt reflect this a used on…
A 97,000-ton nuclear aircraft carrier has now spent more than 2,000 days at the Virginia shipyard that built her, getting a new mast and work on over 600 tanks, and Navy documents point to one more year of it, with her sister ship already there for a five-year overhaul
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@coreywhitmire ROOKIE · 7 days
Let me say from someone who worked on both the 73 and 74…the schedule slips to the right are due in large to COVID. It pushed the 73 to the …
A 1,526-ton World War II submarine with no propellers was towed 113 miles back across Lake Michigan overnight by two tugboats and eased into her museum berth by 10 a.m., after a Wisconsin shipyard found only 10% of her hull steel had worn away in her first dry dock in 72 years
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@harryjohn ROOKIE · 1 week
I think we already and have been overpaying for are navy. I mean come on everyone knows aircraft and drones are future and with so many on a…
@lawrenceromanow ROOKIE · 1 week
Reminds me of movie called Down Periscope by Kelsey Kramer. Ironic isn’t it. ?
@billscheitzach ROOKIE · 1 week
A sister ship, the USS Cobia (SS-245), is moored across the lake at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc as a museum ship.
Used control rod drives from an 842-megawatt reactor on Lake Ontario rode a truck about 750 miles to a shop in North Carolina, every reading on the package and the trailer passed, and the one spot over the limit was the driver’s cab, 2.2 millirem an hour against 2
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@jeffreycutler ROOKIE · 1 week
Answer -- nuclear waste is not that dangerous-- its VALUABLE so they say its super dangerous to keep people away.
Old uranium mines had …
A 243-ton turbine assembly nearly 24 feet across was lowered back into a French hydro plant with only millimeters between its blades and a new ring set in concrete, and the rebuilt unit later climbed to 45 megawatts on its way back to the gridComment on the article →
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@ludodeg ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Hi Luis. Please use metric system. All engineering included by NASA is using metric system.
A 57-ton wind turbine blade snapped off Nantucket and covered the island’s beaches in fiberglass, and 72 more of the 351-foot blades had to come down off the towers at sea before all 62 turbines on America’s first big offshore wind farm could spin
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mikeconley ENTHUSIAST · 2 weeks
One small reactor, on a couple of acres, could power 400,000 homes.
@jonathancole ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Stop this insanity. All of them should come down. They are a colossal mistake.
A 6,900-ton nuclear attack submarine lost permission to dive while she waited for an overhaul, was towed three times between Norfolk and a private shipyard and sat in dry dock with less than a quarter of the work done, and the Navy is now sending her shipyard workers to new submarines
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@frankhannigan ROOKIE · 2 weeks
So they can’t dive…
Reduce crew, use it for preliminary training and assign to drug intervention as part of the surface fleet.
@chuckw ROOKIE · 2 weeks
This is that “Peace dividend” America earned in the late 1990’s when the Cold War allegedly ended but I guess nobody told Russia. Starting …
A flooded nickel and copper mine outside Sudbury sat under water for 25 years with every building on top torn down, and a small Ontario company just approved digging a new ramp into it, pumping it dry and putting the old shaft back to work to haul out 2,400 tons of rock a day for 12 years
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ernestschwink DRIVER · 2 weeks
I want to see the November filing ASAP, it may give better ideas of what to expect.
A 499-foot wind turbine folded in half into a Missouri pasture after two loud noises at 4 in the morning, the fifth tower to go down at the state’s biggest wind farm, and photos taken that afternoon show three of its neighbors spinning beside the stump
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@dennydouglas ROOKIE · 2 weeks
At least it's not a nuclear meltdown.
A transformer feeding a 1,300-megawatt French reactor on the Luxembourg border caught fire as crews switched it back on at the end of a refueling outage, a water spray put it out before the fire trucks arrived, and this weekend only one of the plant’s four reactors is on the grid
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frankodonnell ROOKIE · 3 weeks
EDF must examine the transformer oil using spectroscopy for the prescence of specific hydrocarbons like methane, ethylene and moisture conte…
A 213-foot wind turbine blade weighing 22 tons can’t make the right turn at the roundabout outside a McDonald’s in a small Australian town, so the company trucking 141 of them 400 miles inland plans to lay 1,673 feet of new road through the back of town to skip the turn
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@karla ROOKIE · 3 weeks
want to see how such trips are planned in advance using precise maps and drone footage? Have a look at heavy sim from heavygoods.
A 5,883-foot plastic pipe 31.5 inches across, made in one piece straight out of a Norwegian factory into a fjord, was towed across the North Sea behind a tugboat and pulled under an English beach through a hole drilled from a field, and a second one followed it the same way
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@kennypierce ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Welded bundles of piping towed to sites. Upto 7 km long is also an interesting (old) technology. Pipes sunk onto
Seabed at location.
A wind turbine with a 394-foot rotor folded over into a Missouri field on a Wednesday afternoon, the fourth tower to go down at the state’s biggest wind farm in a little over two years, on a 175-turbine site that had only 15 machines running after the last three fell
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hanswolfgangsch DRIVER · 4 weeks
Any severe winds in the area the last few months?
Any indication of adding non-destructive "live" monitoring of wobble or vibration?
@professorfrank ROOKIE · 3 weeks
I did some research..the blade weighs between 121,700 and 486,800 pounds...got this by looking up the weight of cured fiberglass and differe…
@johnrasmussen ROOKIE · 3 weeks
What's the cost. Does it save on home owners BILL or increase the BILL?
A 170-ton steel pile 8 feet across slides more than 50 feet into a riverbed the consistency of oatmeal before a hammer drives it home, and 55% of those for the south tower are already in, next to the channel where a container ship took down Baltimore’s Key Bridge
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@davidjlundylund ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Great job It makes me feel safe with all the safety precautions keep up the good work
@garybona ROOKIE · 4 weeks
I would like to see more pictures and/or diagrams describing the towers and span.
@johnnield ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Has there been any movement on the installation of cameras to watch live video of the construction of the bridge. I watched nearly the entir…
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
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@halbos ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Very good article. Good insight into the steps involved in the operation of a typical nuclear power plant.
mikeconley ENTHUSIAST · 4 weeks
A reactor anywhere means cleaner air everywhere.
A 1,526-ton submarine sat on blocks in a drained Wisconsin dry dock all summer, out of the water for the first time in 72 years, and gave up a flood valve stamped for her sister sub, lost with all hands in the war, before her tow back across Lake Michigan this month
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MJN MJN ROOKIE · 1 month
Remember seeing her at Navy Pier in Chicago as a kid in the 80s.
@michaelwilder ROOKIE · 1 month
Nailed it sounded interesting
@davelynema ROOKIE · 1 month
Well done, this is by far the best article about the dry dock I have read. You actually did the research instead of recycling what everyone …
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
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@jerryroane ROOKIE · 1 month
Going 3D by going down is two orders of magnitude more money than going 3D above the ground.
Ford finally showed off its $30,000 electric pickup after months of dribbling out tiny details, and the big reveal is that it looks like a plain, boxy truck, which is exactly what Americans have been asking forComment on the article →
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jdjones DRIVER · 1 month
Can I buy it with that wrap? Love how it looks.
The Secret Ford Mustang Pickup Truck is Real, and It Looks GoodComment on the article →
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jdjones DRIVER · 1 month
Thanks. I needed a laugh this morning.
No Electric Windows, Heated Seats, or Infotainment System. Everything Missing From Slate’s Upcoming EV Truck
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@anonanon ROOKIE · 1 month
And what sort of idiot would buy a truck with a range of 350km OR LESS at any price?
Until any EV gets at least 800km range (In a Canadian …
@shaneg ROOKIE · 1 month
Lets be clear, there is nothing missing from the slate despite what the title says. The whole point is to not have unnecessary things. I don…
danya ROOKIE · 1 month
Uh, people who dont need to drive 350km? Families that already have an ICE vehicle for other uses? Ones individual qualifications don't fit …
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
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@rickyglass ROOKIE · 1 month
Perry's idle cooling tower — a completed, 516-foot concrete skyscraper that has never cooled a single thing — is the most expensive architec…
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 onComment on the article →
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@richardsachlebe ROOKIE · 1 month
Question: The uranium was removed, so that the mine tailings contain less radioactive material than the source rock?
Why are the uranium or…
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
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@johnwilliams ROOKIE · 1 month
At 11 miles this tunnel, although definitely impressive, is considerably shorter than the English tunnel, which is almost 3 times this lengt…
@jamesakovalsky ROOKIE · 1 month
What doesvthis project cost?
@roypalinkas ROOKIE · 1 month
The bottom of the tunnel is about 46 meters. The maximum depth of the Transbay tube is 41 meters not 5.8 km. The length is 5.8 km.
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
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@stuartscorgie ROOKIE · 1 month
Did you fact check the tidal information? Bristol mean spring tide range 12.2m . There are 2 others with tides in excess of this
@boneurrhertz ROOKIE · 1 month
Boree McBoreface.
A 279-foot wind turbine blade riding tilted toward the sky came down on its own truck when the trailer’s hydraulics failed in a Black Forest S-curve, and a month later the blades are rolling up the same mountain road toward five 819-foot turbines
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@patrickloftus ROOKIE · 1 month
Would IT have hurt the author of this story to include a photograph of the turbine blade in an elevated position? SMH
A 1-megawatt battery that stores power as graphite glowing at up to 4,352 degrees has started going up in a Massachusetts town, is getting switched on one subsystem at a time, and the worst failure it can have is a stack of very hot bricks slowly going cold
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homer10 DRIVER · 1 month
That glow is heat (energy) leaking out. Surround the heat storage media with mirrors that reflect inferred, and can stand the temperatures. …
andyhill ROOKIE · 1 month
I assume there has to be some sort of containment vessel involved. Hot graphite is damned reactive when exposed to air, as the fire at Cher…
johnsprot ROOKIE · 1 month
What is the round trip efficiency?
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
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@bsbryans ROOKIE · 1 month
Submarine nuclear reactors go to a desert in idaho not Washington.
292-foot wind turbine blades, each twice the length of a Boeing 737, are rolling 186 miles from an Australian port to a desert mine district in daytime-only convoys, headed for towers that jack themselves up in bites until the hub sits 617 feet up
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@nosweatguv ROOKIE · 2 months
Some extremely clever engineers in this world!
Phenomenal achievement!
The 240-foot steel towers of an idle Wyoming wind farm toppled onto the prairie over two days, 450,000 pounds apiece, cut down with what the county fire chief called an exploding axe, a shaped charge notching the steel the way a logger notches a tree
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@bj ROOKIE · 2 months
That's about right. Worthless wind turbines exploded with more heat creating dynamite because the energy these things created wasn't worth b…
@adrianmidgley ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Agricultural state, I think.
Fertiliser supplies currently restricted, worldwide.
Containerised Nitrogen-fixing machinery is becoming avai…
A 935-foot wind turbine in Bavaria carries its hub 653 feet up, the tallest on land, on a concrete-and-steel tower its maker builds more than 1,000 times a year, and the company stood it in its own yard to cover two-thirds of the factory’s power
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@fb ROOKIE · 2 months
the reference to "rotor" seems to conflagrate the definition to include blade-span diameter. wouldn't the rotor be seen as the turbine itse…
An 8-foot delta-wing drone built as America’s copy of Iran’s Shahed drifted in the Gulf off Florida for two days with a mahi-mahi sheltering under it, until a charter crew mistook it for a capsized boat, hauled it in, and got a call asking for the drone back
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@corinneschnur ROOKIE · 2 months
Fascinating story about the drone loss and recovery. I too would be curious about the stories of the other four wayward aircraft.
@keithhohlefelde ROOKIE · 2 months
Its a little silly to show your true colors by calling it the gulf of Mexico. I believe that it was changed to the Gulf of America. If th…
A wind turbine built to stand 1,198 feet tall in eastern Germany can’t even get its three blades bolted on in strong wind, and once they’re on, hydraulic jacks still have to push its 827-ton top up through the lattice tower at 30 feet an hour to a hub height of 984 feet
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@jakeleslie ROOKIE · 2 months
Wind turbines require more energy to build, then they can produce over the expected life time. Add in gear oil, maintenance and de icing, th…
@virginiajames ROOKIE · 2 months
This is getting ridiculous. At what point will you break even on cost versus power produced? Where will you plant oxygen producing trees to …
@duncanwallbank ROOKIE · 2 months
All those statistics in feet. I'd need a voodoo witch-doctor and a grave digger to find someone who understands that.
A 427-foot ship built to haul carbon dioxide as a liquid at 31 below zero docks twice a week at Europe’s largest fertilizer plant, loads almost 2 million gallons from its seven tanks, and sails it to Norway to be pumped 8,530 feet under the North Sea
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@jacobwolf ROOKIE · 2 months
Informative and an eye opener. A very interesting read indeed. Forcing the capture of carbon is truly a vital necessity.
A 78-foot, 12-axle railcar built to haul spent nuclear fuel is getting a refurbished rail line in Idaho for its first cask, and fully loaded it puts about 355 tons on the rails yet sits lighter on each axle than the flatcar beside it, which carries 98 tons of welded steel
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@parthochakrabar ROOKIE · 2 months
AGREED 111% GR8 WRITE UP
A 1,750-kilowatt Army reactor ran 16 years on a Virginia post and sat sealed for 48 more, and it has now been taken apart and hauled off, leaving a graded and seeded field where the first steady flow of nuclear power into an American commercial grid began
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@donaldfusco ROOKIE · 2 months
This article shows exactly why nuclear power is such a bad idea. It probably took more energy to decommission this then it produced. And w…
@chandler ROOKIE · 2 months
Texas...what the article said...can't think of a better state to contaminate.
@dtp ROOKIE · 2 months
What about SL-1?
An American seabed drone with no cable running back to shore heard submarine drones come through a channel and put them on a Navy screen within seconds, from an eight-foot tube that lets go of its own anchor and floats back up when the job is done
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deviantdevil DRIVER · 2 months
These things should self destruct. Seems pretty simple.
A 5-foot tunnel bored 1,017 feet through bedrock under the canal that lets freighters skip Niagara Falls broke through in 33 days, with ships passing 65 feet above the crew, and the same machine is now cutting a second one
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@rmarkclayton ROOKIE · 2 months
James Brindley tunnelled an inverted syphon water supply under a river at the Wet Earth Colliery in 1752, Google up.
@johnbange ROOKIE · 2 months
Just FYI, 100% grade is 45 degrees, so multiply a percent grade figure times .45 to get degrees
A 30-gallon drum too radioactive to handle by hand rode from South Carolina to a salt bed 2,150 feet under New Mexico, the first of its kind out of the plant in over a decade, sealed in an inch of lead with 19 more loaded and 150 being packed behind it
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@harrollmorris ROOKIE · 2 months
Why are they not packing these in the incredibly damage resistant casks designed to transport this stuff back when we had at least plans for…
A 19.7-foot rotor floating on a Dutch lake tilts back toward horizontal when the wind gets up instead of parking the way every offshore turbine does, and it makes 12 kilowatts against the 15,000 of the 774-foot rotor it is meant to replace one day
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@davidthompson ROOKIE · 2 months
This low profile and oscillating approach will make for erratic wind capture and expose unit to equally variable water level wind cureents
A 615-megawatt reactor lost its cooling towers, its transformer and its power lines to a teardown crew, so rebuilding all three to get it on the grid by early 2029 takes up to $1.9 billion in federal money, the biggest check any American restart has drawn
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@jacklamoureux ROOKIE · 2 months
"The restart everybody in Des Moines is applauding is landing differently eight miles up the road."
Palo is not 8 miles from Des Moines, it…
A 19-foot American drone submarine rated for 19,700 feet sat dead in the water for more than a day at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, where the bottom runs 200 to 330 feet, until Iranian naval forces hauled it in, and the man who built it posted “rest in peace, little buddy”
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@ks ROOKIE · 2 months
How could Iran find this when Trump controls the Strait? LOL
@jeffreybailey ROOKIE · 2 months
Thought Iran didnt have a navy? So how did their Navy retrieve it? 🤣 🤣
Two boring machines have cut 5.5 miles toward each other under a British Columbia mountain, one pressing disc cutters into granite and the other pumping clay and water in ahead of itself to hold up an estuary, and the tunnel they leave behind gets flooded on purpose
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@rickbartram ROOKIE · 2 months
Makes sense to me.
The Internet Says Cybertruck Owners Are Being Told Their Trucks Are Worthless. Two of the Videos Look Like Dealership Skits, and the Real Number Is Ordinary
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dustingreen ROOKIE · 2 months
A gentleman jacked me off at an In N Out bathroom in Studio City. Didn't ask permission, didn't say a word. Just grabbed my hog and started …
Toyota sells a truck for $12,500. But you can’t have one in the US
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@gabrielgeneski ROOKIE · 2 months
It's absolutely bologna first of all why are we still doing something from some idiot in 1964 and also it is supposed to be a humans rights …
A 38-foot drone boat that once spent 192 hours alone at sea came up behind a float towed by a Navy ship off Virginia, pushed a fuel probe into it, took on 400 gallons over dozens of hookups and let go each time, and somebody was steering the probe on every one
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@charlesclawson ROOKIE · 2 months
Tell us more.
582 recalls in ten years is more than any other automaker has run up, and Ford’s fix started when tens of thousands of finished Super Duty trucks got parked in yards instead of shipped, and two-thirds of its manufacturing and engineering leadership was replaced
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@beaukennedy ROOKIE · 2 months
I have a 2015 Crew Cab F150 2.7 with 230K miles and counting. Got it certified pre-owned with almost 40K. Aside from normal wear and tear fi…