{"id":5575,"date":"2025-07-25T04:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/3d-printing-reshapes-construction-for-nuclear-energy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:03:15","slug":"3d-printing-reshapes-construction-for-nuclear-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/3d-printing-reshapes-construction-for-nuclear-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printing reshapes construction for nuclear energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    3D printing reshapes construction for nuclear energy<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>In a bold step toward transforming how nuclear infrastructure is built, the Department of Energy&#8217;s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction, has successfully developed and validated large-scale, 3D-printed polymer composite forms for casting complex, high-precision concrete structures that would be technically challenging and costly to produce using conventional methods. The concrete forms are being used at Kairos Power&#8217;s Oak Ridge campus, where the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor is currently under construction\u2014a milestone for the future of American nuclear energy.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-07-3d-reshapes-nuclear-energy.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing reshapes construction for nuclear energy In a bold step toward transforming how nuclear infrastructure is built, the Department of Energy&#8217;s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction, has successfully developed and validated large-scale, 3D-printed polymer composite forms for casting complex, high-precision concrete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-green-tech","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}