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jtriangle on Oct 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines

We had nuclear tbm's in the early 70's, but nobody thought to develop them further than a few prototypes.

They worked though, and were very fast for their time, still quite fast even by today's standards.

ggm on Oct 11, 2023 [–]

We didn't have them we had non nuclear test instances and patents, and nobody ever scaled it up to use nuclear power.

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