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3D Printing News Briefs, December 20, 2025: Gas Turbine Hardware, Build Settings, & More

We’re starting this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs with news from Mears Machine and Exentis Group about large orders they’ve delivered and received. Then, a student at Kennesaw State University…

Nanoe and Orano Work on Anti-Corrosion Materials For Nuclear Industry

Ceramics 3D printing experts Nanoe have worked with Orano Tricastin, a $6 billion revenue French Uranium enrichment firm, to make custom-bound filaments for the nuclear industry. The nuclear industry has,…

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Critical Nuclear Fuel Production Unit 3D Printed for Commercial Nuclear Fusion

Scientists from China’s Shenzhen University have explored a new technique using additive manufacturing to optimize the “heart” of a nuclear fusion reactor, its tritium production unit. In research, military and…

Idaho National Laboratory Wants to Disrupt the Nuclear Industry via 3D Printing

As 3D enhances—and in many cases completely transforms—a wide range of industries and businesses of all sizes, the potential for printing parts for nuclear plants continues to be of interest…

INL Researchers Use Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Process to Make Advanced Nuclear Fuels for Reactors

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), part of the DOE‘s complex of national laboratories and the top laboratory in the US for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment, has been involved…