Category: Nuclear Power

ATI signs agreement to supply materials for manufacture of nuclear reactor components

Allegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, announces that it has signed a new long-term agreement with BWX Technologies Inc., Lynchburg, Va., to supply materials used in the manufacture of naval nuclear reactor components.

Retech supplies vacuum induction melting systems to Siemens for casting turbine blades

Retech Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Seco Warwick Group, Meadville, Pa., announces that two of its furnace systems have been installed at a new Siemens Power and Gas plant.

Russian scientists research steel-vanadium-steel laminate for next-gen nuclear reactors

Materials scientists from the Russian National University of Science and Technology (NUST MISIS) announce that they have developed a unique steel-vanadium-steel sandwich material that is able to withstand temperatures of up to 700°C, hard radiation exposure, mechanical stress, and chemical exposure for a long period of time.

DOE awards $36 million to develop materials for high-temperature heat exchangers

The U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, announces $36 million in awards for 18 projects as part of the High Intensity Thermal Exchange through Materials and Manufacturing Processes (HITEMMP).

Tungsten-based alloy withstands radiation in nuclear fusion devices without damage

Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, announces that its scientists have developed a tungsten-based alloy that can withstand unprecedented amounts of radiation without damage.

Lindberg MPH ships single-zone tube furnace to company in the nuclear power industry

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a single-zone tube furnace to an engineering company in the nuclear power industry for annealing, ashing, carbon firing, ceramic firing, drying, hardening, sintering, solution treating, stress relieving, and normalizing.

Idaho National Lab develops heat treatment to extend life of superalloys in nuclear reactors

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, announce that they have developed a heat treatment method that enables superalloys to withstand high heat more than six times longer than an untreated counterpart, extending useful life by thousands of hours in applications such as nuclear reactors.

Nuclear fuel rod cladding alloy designed to prevent hydrogen generation when heated

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., announces that a team led by its researchers has developed an alloy of iron, chromium, and aluminum that does not contain zirconium.

Multi-element nickel alloys resist radiation damage 100 times better than pure nickel

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, reports its researchers have discovered that nickel-cobalt-iron and nickel-cobalt-iron-chromium-manganese alloys in equal concentrations can be 100 times more resistant to radiation-induced swelling than pure nickel, meaning that radiation-induced cavities in these alloys are 100 times smaller than in pure nickel.

Electric oxidizing oven heat treats Inconel trays for nuclear power fuel cell rods

Baker Furnace Inc., Yorba Linda, Calif., has shipped an electric oxidizing oven to a manufacturer of components for nuclear power plants to heat treat Inconel support trays that hold nuclear fuel cell rods in place.