Advances in TCR’s Instrumentation and Control (I&C) and Design thrusts were recently featured in the American Nuclear Society’s (ANS) August issue of Nuclear News to highlight innovations in (1) embedding sensing, (2) novel control mechanisms, and (3) vessel coolant optimization for improved reactor control.
Read the full article from ANS.
During the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry refueling outage in April 2021, safety-related AM components were inserted into an operating commercial nuclear power plant’s reactor core.
The TCR program, partnered with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Framatome, designed and built four additively manufactured brackets, which were used in the installed fuel assemblies.
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.
Read more at ORNL.gov
