U.S. Nuclear Buildout Faces Heavy-Forging Capacity Gap

DOE has committed up to $17.5 billion in loans to accelerate the deployment of ten AP1000 nuclear reactors in the U.S. by 2030, but a critical bottleneck remains in the limited heavy-forging capacity needed for reactor pressure vessels, which depends on a small, internationally concentrated supplier base primarily in Japan, South Korea, China, and Russia.

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