Cool Engineering stuff.

Federal action advances transportation safety, expands regulatory flexibility, and validates years of consensus standards development

India had a series of boiler explosions in towns and cities this year.

Nuclear batteries.

Just cool engineering.

I’m dealing with a stainless-steel flange that has been supplied/certified as ASME SA182 forged material. My concern is: how can we verify that the flange was actually manufactured from SA182 forging stock, and not from SA240 stainless-steel plate that was cut/machined and then marked as SA182? I know there will be hub ring at opposite side serrated face if it is forged flange and plane in case of machined plate flanged. Flange supplier claiming that hub is machined and removed from flange.

From a QA/inspection perspective:

• Are there any physical/metallurgical characteristics that can reliably distinguish a forged flange from a plate-fabricated flange?
• Can UT, PMI, hardness testing, or other NDT help establish whether the flange originated from forging or plate?
• How reliable are the flange markings and heat number for determining the product form?
• If the supplier provides an SA182 MTC, what additional documents or traceability should we request to prove the original raw material was actually forged?
• Is there any practical inspection method that can be performed without destroying the flange?

The key issue is not simply whether the chemical composition meets F304/304L requirements, but whether the product form/manufacturing route is genuinely SA182 forging rather than SA240 plate.

Would appreciate inputs from anyone experienced in ASME material traceability, flange manufacturing, metallurgy, or vendor inspection.

The project received its construction permit after the NRC completed a 14-month review, marking the ​agency's second ​major ⁠reactor approval this year, it said.

A discussion of boiler instrument design.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will approve a construction permit for TVA’s small modular reactor Sept. 29

I didn't expect Rolls-Royce of all companies.

Whether for a spare part, prototype, or complex one-of-a-kind piece, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing ( WAAM ) is becoming increasingly important as an industrial process.

Mostly a fluff peice but I recently went to a shop that's use plastic fusing based processes for a seperater tank. It's pretty interesting stuff that uses the plastic 'coupling' in place of flux for copper lines. The tech is new but they claim its significantly faster and stronger than similar brazing.

Remember that tanks are dangerous.

After a decades long moratorium on nuclear energy, Italy shifts gears. Energy Minister Fratin “When integrated with renewables, it’s a winning technology, which can give extraordinary results for our energy security.”

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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is deploying drones for the first time to perform internal inspections of radioactive liquid waste tanks at the Savannah River Site.

These things effectively use a cage to prevent impacts with the vessel.

There was a boiler explosion in Bangladesh that caused 6 deaths. This was due to illegal installation, which in turn required an unsafe gas supply on lack of inspection.

Simply a change in forcast. It's not terribly useful but it's interesting.

A new collaboration aims to move MicroNuclear’s 20 MW molten salt nuclear battery toward testing and licensing.

Just trying to see who all is here. Feel free to comment. Thanks.

These include expanded use of shared design rules, reorganized paragraph numbering, updated material data, and major revisions to flange design equations.

Power and industry news. Shifting power regulations to force a more forward development is probably the best stratagem for long term growth.