News Release Department of Energy and Purdue partner to improve nuclear reactor construction

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Department of Energy and Purdue partner to improve nuclear reactor construction

https://inl.gov/news-release/department-of-energy-and-purdue-partner-to-improve-nuclear-reactor-construction/

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The Department of Energy's National Reactor Innovation Center has partnered with the Purdue Applied Research Institute to test advanced construction methods. The collaboration will build a scaled steel-plate composite containment vessel at Purdue to evaluate constructability and structural integrity.

Additional partners like the Electric Power Research Institute and the Nuclear Energy Institute will provide technical and regulatory guidance. The initiative focuses on shifting more fabrication off-site to decrease schedule delays and control expenses during future small modular reactor deployments.

(WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana) – Today the Department of Energy's National Reactor Innovation Center announced a collaboration with Purdue University's Applied Research Institute to demonstrate construction technologies that could significantly reduce the cost and risk of new nuclear reactors.

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