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Nuclear Reactor Components 3D Printed by ORNL Installed at TVA Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant

The channel fasteners’ straightforward, non-symmetric geometry was a good match for a first-ever additive manufacturing application for a nuclear reactor.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Four first-of-a-kind 3D-printed fuel assembly brackets, produced at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been installed and are now under routine operating conditions at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 2 in Athens, AL. The components were developed in collaboration with TVA, Framatome and the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy–funded Transformational Challenge Reactor, or TCR, program based at ORNL. “D...

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