ORNL printed composite nuclear formwork wins CAMX award
Oak Ridge National Laboratory reported on October 14 that its work on 3D-printed composite formwork for nuclear construction won the CAMX Combined Strength award. The lab said reusable forms were designed, printed and delivered in about two weeks, compared with six months for steel forms.
Source review period: 2026-10-14
Published: · Updated:
The source does not state the event date; the period shown is the source review period.
Those figures describe formwork supply times, not the reactor’s total construction schedule. The full-scale demonstration at Kairos Power’s Oak Ridge campus forms part of work connected with the Hermes low-power demonstration reactor under construction. Use of the forms in portions of Hermes is planned.
Data
Source announcement
- · Occurred
ORNL printed composite nuclear formwork wins CAMX award
Oak Ridge National Laboratory reported on October 14 that its work on 3D-printed composite formwork for nuclear construction won the CAMX Combined Strength award. The lab said reusable forms were designed, printed and delivered in about two weeks, compared with six months for steel forms.
Methodology
The date identifies publication of the source announcement; this is not an independent performance measurement.
Updated:
Subjects and places
Subject proposals
- Nuclear powerSuggested
- Subject suggested from the title or summary: nuclear constructionwww.ornl.gov ↗
- Construction and propertySuggested
- Subject suggested from the title or summary: constructionwww.ornl.gov ↗
Geographic references
Only source-provided geographic references are shown. Opening an external map is optional. Optional story maps use OpenStreetMap. Opening a map sends your IP address and this site’s address to the map provider; location data remains readable as text without loading the map.
- United States · Place role: Coverage · Place type: Country or area · Location precision: RegionalEvidence
- Explicit preserved editorial country/region; no city or national centroid inferredwww.ornl.gov ↗