Rosatom has 3D printed a part for a nuclear facility for the first time. This is a pump impeller for the Siberian Chemical Combine (SKhK) sublimation plant, according to a message on the company’s website.
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The Siberian Chemical Combine has the only uranium conversion plant in Russia. This is one of the technological stages of the nuclear fuel production chain, which precedes the enrichment of the uranium 235 isotope, the company clarified.
They said that the booster was created using selective laser melting technology on a RusMelt-300 3D printer, manufactured by specialists from the Rosatom fuel division.
A centrifugal pump, for which a wheel has been printed, is used to circulate water through an internal heat exchanger. According to the demands of design engineers, the part must have a strictly defined shape with curvatures, “which cannot be made with any of the traditional methods,” except 3D printing, the SCC indicated.
The statement notes that Rosatom is carrying out comprehensive work to introduce 3D printing in the nuclear industry: the corresponding working group includes more than 60 chief designers, end users, metrologists and representatives of certification bodies. A list of 120 products “that are advisable to print on 3D printers” has also been drawn up, it says there.
The Siberian Chemical Combine is located in the city of Seversk, Tomsk Region, and unites four plants for the processing of nuclear materials, Interfax writes.
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