LFAM enables the future of nuclear energy at ORNL Industrial Additive Manufacturing

In a major advancement for nuclear construction, the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in partnership with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction, has developed and validated large-scale 3D-printed polymer composite forms. These are used to cast complex concrete structures for Kairos Power’s Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor, now under construction at their Oak Ridge campus.