International research, including that done in conjunction with the DOE, strives to create conditions in the lab necessary to support nuclear fusion. Huge machinery, such as the “Z-Machine”, can create temperatures of 2.9 million °F (1.6 million °C) for fractions of a second. Integral components must have the ability to conduct electricity and perform in the machine’s water cooling system. Attempts to use fabrications in those applications were abandoned because dimensional stability could not be achieved. The customer came to MetalTek for a casting solution, a particularly challenging one because of the product’s large size. MetalTek specializes in large investment castings, and now supplies products with better dimensional consistency than was available with a fabrication to support this important, and hopeful, research.
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