Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday. Most of the major water companies in the United Kingdom use dowsing rods — a folk magic practice discredited by science — to find underwater pipes, according to an ...

Founded in 1979 and now spanning 100,000 square feet on Kalamazoo's north side, the privately held coating company changed its name Jan. 1 to Wright Coating Technologies - reflecting a change that ...

And it turns out, as those rods are overheating, their zirconium alloy coating reacts with hot steam to create explosive clouds of hydrogen that, once ignited, can cause massive radiation release.