With AMA: Energy 2026 approaching, 3D Printing Industry is taking a closer look at the role of additive manufacturing in the energy sector. When most engineers think about the challenges of nuclear fusion, they think about plasma temperatures of 50 million degrees Celsius, magnetic containment, and tritium fuel cycles. Moataz Attallah, newly appointed Dean of the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical, and Materials Engineering at Loughborough University , thinks about something far more fundamental: what the reactor walls are made of, and how to build them. Speaking from his new role, having moved his research group the Advanced Materials Processing Laboratory (AMPLanb) from the University of Birmingham , where the research was conducted, Attallah presented findings from a major UK-funded program involving Metamorphic AM and private fusion company Tokamak Energy .…