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22-Oct-2020

Colorado School of Mines researchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers from the Colorado School of Mines used neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor to measure residual stress of welds used to make large steel tanks that store molten salts for industrial concentrating solar plants.

19-Oct-2020

Additively manufactured components by ORNL headed for TVA nuclear reactor

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL has 3D printed a channel bracket to go into reactors at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant this spring, to demonstrate the viability of pre-qualified additively manufactured reactor components.