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First 3D-Printed Home Made Primarily From Soil is Built in Japan–Ditching Unsustainable Concrete https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-3d-printed-home-made-primarily-from-soil-is-built-in-japan/

First 3D-Printed Home Made Primarily From Soil is Built in Japan–Ditching Unsustainable Concrete
Collaborating with 3D printer manufacturers and robotics engineers, a Japanese company is building “homes of earth” made primarily from soil.

⚛️ 3D printing reshapes construction for nuclear energy
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3D printing reshapes construction for nuclear energy
In a bold step toward transforming how nuclear infrastructure is built, the Department of Energy's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction, has successfully developed and validated large-scale, 3D-printed polymer composite forms for casting complex, high-precision concrete structures that would be technically challenging and costly to produce using conventional methods. The concrete forms are being…