Dhaka, Dec. 4 -- Afrikantov Experimental Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering, part of Rosatom's Mechanical Engineering Division, has received approval to manufacture components for the RITM-200 nuclear reactor using 3D printing technologies. The first additively manufactured component is a terminal box; an essential part of the pumping equipment used in nuclear power plants.

"Obtaining regulatory approval for the first additive-manufactured component of the RITM-200 reactor plant paves the way for wider use of 3D printing in producing various equipment for marine nuclear power plants, as well as other nuclear industry applications," said Yuri Vytnov, Chief Technologist at Afrikantov OKBM.

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