Additively manufactured components by ORNL headed for TVA nuclear reactor

The Transformational Challenge Reactor, or TCR, a microreactor built using 3D printing and other new advanced technologies, could be operational by 2024.

But the technology being used to develop the 14th reactor at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory may be tested in currently operating nuclear reactors as early as this spring.

 

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