Regulatory approval has been granted for the first components of a RITM-200 small modular reactor plant to be produced using ...

Kairos Power and Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested the potential of AM and composites to enable fast, repeatable ...

Setting a new milestone in nuclear research, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully fired up 3D-printed stainless steel capsules inside one of the ...

This expansion is critical as the United States energy grid faces mounting pressure. Projections indicate the country will ...

Anticipating a boom in nuclear energy, the US Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is using 3D-printing to speed up the building of power ...

Boing Boing plunged the depths of Etsy to find this 3D-printed replica of the Chernobyl power plant, complete with a ruined reactor that lights up and spews “smoke” when you use it as a diffuser or ...

Why it matters: Two concurrent developments – faster, more agile nuclear construction enabled by 3D printing, and the race to deploy a functional nuclear reactor on the Moon – signal a profound ...

ORNL researchers used a laser powder-bed system at the lab’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility to 3D print 316H stainless steel capsules for use in irradiation experiments. The capsule provides a ...

Pair say digital twin-powered scheduling will cut costs, shrink timelines for 10 planned reactors Google and atomic power biz ...

The Nuclear Company is taking an old approach to building new nuclear reactors. Rather than gin up a new design or try to mass manufacture smaller reactors, it wants to develop a series of reactors ...