3D-printed components in service at TVA reactor
10 August 2021
Four first-of-a-kind 3D-printed fuel assembly channel fasteners have been installed and are now under routine operating conditions at unit 2 of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Browns Ferry nuclear power plant in Alabama. The components were produced at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).