3D printed channel fasteners for Framatome’s boiling water reactor fuel assembly (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

3D printed channel fasteners for Framatome’s boiling water reactor fuel assembly

Caption

ORNL used novel additive manufacturing techniques to 3D print channel fasteners for Framatome’s boiling water reactor fuel assembly. Four components, like the one shown here, were installed at the TVA Browns Ferry nuclear plant.

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Framatome

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