Industries

Manufacturing capacity for nuclear and SMR programs.

Nuclear is the hardest supply chain in advanced manufacturing: ASME Section III, N-stamp scope, code qualification, and long-lead forgings measured in years. The capable shops are a short list, and finding them is most of the job. Altrusion maps that list and matches it to the programs building the next generation of reactors.

Why Altrusion

Built for how nuclear & smr work actually gets sourced.

Code qualification is a first-class filter

ASME NQA-1, Section III scope and safety classification live in the supplier profile, so a safety-related component never gets matched to a commercial-grade shop.

Built for long-lead reality

Reactor vessels, internals and primary coolant hardware are quoted and tracked on the timelines they actually take, not on a two-week marketplace clock.

The whole reactor island, not just machining

Pressure vessels, heat exchangers, valves and pumps, shielding weldments and instrumentation are all in scope, with suppliers profiled per component family.

What we source

17 component families, priced and matched.

These are the categories our instant estimator already prices and our matching engine already routes for nuclear & smr programs. Describe a part in any of them and get a ballpark in about a minute.

  • Printed-Circuit / Compact Heat Exchanger (PCHE)
  • Reactor Pressure Vessel / Core Vessel
  • Nuclear-Grade Valve (incl. MSR Freeze Valve)
  • Reactor Coolant / Molten-Salt Pump
  • Steam Generator
  • Reactor Internals / Core Support Structure
  • Control Rod Drive Mechanism (CRDM)
  • Primary Piping / Code Pressure Spool
  • Nuclear I&C Sensor / Thermowell / In-Core Detector
  • Fuel-Assembly Skeleton / Structural Hardware (non-fueled)
  • Fuel Grid Spacer
  • Fuel Cladding & Pressure Tubing
  • Heat-Pipe / Microreactor Core Module
  • Reactor Protection / Safety I&C Cabinet
  • Radiation Shielding & Containment Weldment (borated/tungsten)
  • Refueling & Remote-Handling Equipment
  • Power-Conversion Turbine (steam / sCO2 / He)
Design Studio

26 engineering tools for nuclear & smr.

Included with Unlimited. Every tool runs in your browser, so your geometry and operating points never leave your machine, and every answer ships with a 90% uncertainty interval.

  • Radiation Shielding Attenuation
  • Decay Heat & Cask Thermal
  • Deep-Penetration Neutron Shielding (1-D)
  • Design-Space Optimizer (any tool)
  • Pipe Flow & Pump Operating Point
  • Heat Exchanger Sizing (LMTD / e-NTU)
  • Fatigue Life (S-N, Mean Stress, Miner)
  • Fracture & Crack Growth (LEFM / Paris)
  • Rolling Bearing Life (L10)
  • Relief Valve Sizing (API-520-style)
  • Parameter Sweep & Monte-Carlo (any tool)
  • Weld Thermal: Heat Input, Cooling Rate & Preheat
  • +14 more
Programs we monitor

Where the work comes from.

  • SMR and advanced reactor developers
  • National laboratory and NNSA programs
  • Molten-salt and high-temperature reactors
  • Nuclear naval supply chain
Now in beta

Ready to source nuclear & smr capacity?