https://bnnbreaking.com/world/sheff...izes-nuclear-power-with-electron-beam-welding Being entirely honest I don't quite understand it, apparently welding at an atomic level? Absolutely remarkable piece of engineering though and something that should be celebrated in the region. Taking a 150 day process and shrinking it to 2 hours is incredible.
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/British-company-pioneers-new-nuclear-welding-techn An entire nuclear reactor built in 24 hours - used to take a year. This genuinely seems revolutionary.
Knowing this country, it will be sold off to the Chinese just like a lot of other technologies in the past.
Reading the details attached they have effectively assembled five sub component parts together using the revolutionary fusion welding technique with four welds in just 24 hrs. I suspect there will be some post welding machining to be done by Forgemasters to provide one large and significant component part towards the building of a nuclear reactor.
A wall thickness of 200mm! I can see why it would have taken so long previously. Good innovation and might be relevant to other industries too although I suspect it don't come cheap. It come expensive. I'd also missed that Forgemasters is now government owned.
