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## Economic development honor among ORNL’s 5 federal laboratory awards

February 14, 2022

ORNL, TVA and TNECD were recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for their impactful partnership that resulted in a record $2.3 billion investment by Ultium Cells, a General Motors and LG Energy Solution joint venture, to build a battery cell manufacturing plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

## Ultra Safe Nuclear licenses ORNL method to 3D print advanced reactor components  

January 10, 2022

A novel method to 3D print components for nuclear reactors, developed by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been licensed by Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation.

## Fast fabrication: ORNL develops, produces metal hydride for moderator in 3D-printed reactor 

September 15, 2020

About 60 years ago, scientists discovered that a certain rare earth metal-hydrogen mixture, yttrium, could be the ideal moderator to go inside small, gas-cooled nuclear reactors. 

## Scientists building 3D-printed nuclear reactor core use HFIR to test novel materials

August 25, 2020

It’s a new type of nuclear reactor core. And the materials that will make it up are novel — products of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s advanced materials and manufacturing technologies.

## AI software enables real-time 3D printing quality assessment

August 13, 2020

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed artificial intelligence software for powder bed 3D printers that assesses the quality of parts in real time, without the need for expensive characterization equipment.

## As ORNL builds novel reactor, nuclear industry benefits from technology

May 28, 2020

Scientists at the Department of Energy Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL have their eyes on the prize: the Transformational Challenge Reactor, or TCR, a microreactor built using 3D printing and other new approaches that will be up and running by 2023.

## 3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy

May 11, 2020

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the additive manufacturing process necessary to build it, and developing methods

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