Manufacturing & Fabrication Technology

Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing at Framatome: From Material/Machine/Process Qualification to Serial Production of Nuclear Fuel Components

1:00–1:25PM CDT

Guillaume Badinier (Framatome), Didier Bardel (Framatome), Claude Simonot (Framatome), Stéphane Cachat (Framatome), Elmar Schweitzer (Framatome), Kevin Sohn (Framatome), Nate Schuyler (Framatome), Rémi-Paul Godier (Framatome)

Specialized use of Additive Manufacturing Techniques to Prototype and Evaluate Next Generation Spacer Grids

1:25–1:50PM CDT

William Cleary (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Uffe Bergmann (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Oleksiy Riznychenko (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Edward Diloreto (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jacob Lydick (Penn United Technologies)

Industrialization of LEU+ Fuel Fabrication Capability

1:50–2:15PM CDT

Norman Garner (Framatome), Gannon Johnson (Framatome), Steven Cole (Framatome)

Joining Fuel Rod to End Cap with No Flaw. Repeatable.

2:15–2:40PM CDT

Paul Cheng (FuseRing Inc.)