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Vol. 53, No. 3, (Fall 2020)
- Editorial: Applying diverse expertise at a global scale
- To the Point: Machine learning predicts fire risk in Africa, protein models explore methylmercury formation
- Carbon Cycle: Balancing Carbon: ORNL sets its sights on a global challenge, All-in-one carbon conversion, Making the most of captured carbon
- Focus on Neutrons: Discovery points the way to more practical superconductors, New synthetic polymers rival their protein counterparts
- Focus on Computing: Record-breaking supercomputer simulations aid COVID-19 research, Quantum technologies go the distance
- Focus on Fusion: New device will test materials for fusion reactors
- Focus on Nuclear: Nuclear consortium leaves industry with advanced simulation tool, Remote-controlled system can repair radioactive canisters
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Curved crystals are promising for quantum devices, New material phase may boost ultrathin electronics, New detector sees the origins of elements
- Focus on Hydropower: Fake fish test real impacts of hydropower
- Focus on Biology: New tool offers a better picture of plants
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: The origins of fusion energy research at ORNL
Vol. 53, No. 2, (Spring 2020)
- Editorial: ORNL is a laboratory of leaders
- Fighting COVID-19: ORNL is in the fight against COVID-19
- To the point: To the Point: Tokamak assembly to begin at ITER, a view of polymers at the oil–water interface, smart traffic lights can save truck fuel
- R&D Leadership: Scientific leadership begins with people, Highly cited research inspires insight and collaboration, ORNL researchers shine in professional societies
- Operations and Mission Support: Experts enable ORNL to keep going strong, New workshops let participants face uncomfortable truths
- Infographic: ORNL by the numbers
- Community Engagement and Leadership: Staff members bring ORNL to the community
- Promoting the Next Generation: Polymer physics pioneer pushes women in STEM, People with purpose power ORNL, Oppenheimer program shapes ORNL leaders
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: John Martinis
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Weinberg's legacy of leadership
Vol. 53, No. 1, (Winter 2020)
- Editorial: Neutron scattering for a better world
- To the Point: US ITER gets new director, ORNL fuel tech can make ethanol competitive, ORNL home to nine highly cited researchers
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutrons open a world of research, What makes neutron scattering unique, SNS upgrades will benefit researchers
- Focus on Computing: Farewell, Titan: A long-running supercomputer with tremendous impact, Igniting a new class of combustion research
- Infographic: Neutron scattering at ORNL
- Focus on Biofuels: Getting to the root of better plants
- Focus on Transportation: ORNL engine research supports new fuel development
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Bio-inspired material soaks up oceans’ uranium, Right electrolyte doubles 2D material’s ability to store energy
- Early Career Award Winners: The future is bright: Nine ORNL researchers take home prestigious early career awards
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: The church that’s not supposed to be there
Vol. 46, No. 2, (Fall 2013)
Science in Sync- Editorial: Transformational potential
- Features: Multi-faceted forecasting ... 3D printing rises to the occasion ... Tag-team R&D ... Hunting for hydrogen ... Diversify, replace, recycle ... Potent partnerships ... Better biofuels
- A Closer View: Ben Preston
- Research Horizons: ORNL research reveals new challenges for mercury cleanup ... ORNL finding goes beyond surface of oxide films ... New algorithm enables unprecedented sampling, modeling of Arctic
Vol. 46, No. 1, (Winter 2013)
Disruptive Materials- Editorial: Driving innovation in the 21st Century
- Features: Disruptive materials ... Nanotech toolbox ... Materials for measuring the universe ... Growing graphene ... Heavy-metal fishing ... Rethinking nuclear fuel design ... Blood, sweat and serendipity ... Something new under the sun
- A Close View: Kinga Unocic
- Research Horizons: ‘Zoomable’ map of poplar proteins offers new view of bioenergy crop ... ORNL scientists solve mercury mystery ... Mobility and risk
Vol. 19, No. 4, ( 1986)
- Sizing Up Contaminated Properties: A Saga of ORNL's Western Pioneers. Employees at ORNL's new office in Grand Junction, Colorado, have surveyed hundreds of radon-emitting properties for DOE's Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project. The office also is responsible for several innovations that are expected to save the project millions of dollars.
- Genetic Risks of Using Ethylene Oxide. New ORNL studies on the mutagenicity of ethylene oxide in mice suggest that regulations may be needed to limit brief exposures to the gas, which is widely used by health care workers to sterilize medical supplies.
- Human Gene Therapy: A Look at a Cutting Edge of Biomedical Science. Gene therapy—implanting appropriate genes in cells to correct genetic disorders—is being considered for widespread use in humans with inherited diseases. The author, who is a member of a national committee that considers the technical, ethical, and social implications of this biomedical technology, discusses the technical merits and problems of human gene therapy and current recommendations on its future use.
- Survey Sampling: A Useful Tool for Scientific Investigation. Scientists at ORNL have used statistics and survey sampling to ensure accuracy in their research results. Examples include determining the proportion of transuranic wastes in waste mixtures and estimating the size of fish populations at various sites. The author presents a primer on conducting a survey.
- Nuclear Sleuthing at ORNL: A New Look at Neutron Activation Analysis. Scientists at ORNL have helped develop neutron-activation analysis, which has been used for 50 years to identify and quantify elements, such as uranium, in materials. They will advance the science at the expanded NAA facility at the High Flux Isotope Reactor.
- ORNL's Forays into Forensic Activation Analysis. In the 1960s ORNL activation-analysis experts helped evaluate the evidence from the Kennedy assassination and two highly publicized murder trials.
- News Notes. ORNL's involvement in CERN physics experiment; plans for ACTO, a nuclear-plant advanced controls facility; another Large Coil Test Program milestone.
- Technical Capsules. ORNL's three IR 100 award-winning projects; new method of detecting wear in motor-operated valves; designing a reactor for space.
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
Vol. 19, No. 3, ( 1986)
- The Origins of Physics Research at ORNL
- The Origins of Chemical Research at ORNL
- Surface Modification Using Ion Beams and Lasers
- A View of the Surface on the Atomic Scale
- Design of High-Temperature, Ordered Intermetallic Alloys
- Materials Science Theory at ORNL
- Recent Advances in the Science of Ceramics
- Ceramics in Basic Research
- Users, Users Everywhere
- Probing Materials Using Low-Energy Neutron Beams
- ORNL's X-Ray Facility at the National Synchrotron Light Source
- The Science and Engineering of Irradiated Materials
- Theoretical Research on Solids
- Mathematical Sciences Research at ORNL
- Research in Intelligent Machines at ORNL
- Collisions of Low-Energy Multiply Charged Ions
- High-Energy Atomic Physics
- Platinized Chloroplasts: A New Bioelectronic Material Developed at ORNL
- Separation Science and Technology
- Research on High-Temperature Water Solutions
- Organic Chemistry of Coal
- Analytical Challenges in Mass Spectrometry Research
- Nuclear Physics Theory at ORNL
- Macroscopic Nuclear Physics
- Nuclear Structure of the Stressed Nucleus
- Probing Nuclei Using ORELA's Energetic Neutrons
Vol. 19, No. 2, ( 1986)
- State of the Laboratory—1985: How Service Groups Support Research. In this updated report of his February 10, 1986, address to the staff, ORNL Director Herman Postma salutes the work of the Laboratory's support and services organizations in maintaining ORNL as a high-quality research facility. Services mentioned by Postma range from computerized library services and health risk information to the fabrication of large-scale breeder test equipment. Technical highlights include the development of a novel bioelectronic photosynthetic material for water splitting, an analytical technique to aid in the design of more efficient absorption heat pumps for heating and cooling buildings, a "smarter" robot, a method of using "bugs" to liquefy coal, and a computerized ultrasonic system for mapping "hot spots" on properties in the West having radioactive uranium mill tailings. Postma also notes ORNL's award-winning achievements.
- Superconducting Magnets for Fusion Energy: The Story Behind the Six Coils. The International Fusion Superconducting Magnet Test Facility at ORNL now contains its full array of six large superconducting magnet coils. The coils were designed and built under ORNL's direction over the past 10 years by groups in Japan, Switzerland, the European Atomic Energy Community, and three U.S. firms. This article presents the story behind the coils and the status of the testing program to compare the technical performance, reliability, and economics of different coil designs that could be used to contain plasmas in fusion devices that could generate useful electrical power.
- Books. Global Energy: Assessing the Future is reviewed by Bud Perry of the Energy Division.
- News Notes. ORNL and Japan collaborate on fission R&D; isotope facilities named nuclear historic landmark; inventors honored; technology-transfer workshop sparks industrial interest.
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
Vol. 19, No. 1, ( 1986)
- Civilian Reactor Power in the United States: A Strategy for ORNL
- The Next Generation of Reactors: The Nuclear Power Options Viability Study
- Nuclear Power: Who Needs It?
- Where in the World Is Nuclear Energy?
- Pressurized Thermal Shock: A Hot Issue for the Nuclear Industry?
- Reactor Safety Research: NRC Programs at ORNL
- Radioactive Waste Disposal: Technical Plans, Institutional Delays
- Automating Large-Scale Reactor Systems
- Building a Better Research Reactor: The Proposed Center for Neutron Research
- Radioisotopes from ORNL: 40 Years of Customer Satisfaction
- Editorial. The nuclear power option must be kept alive
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- News Notes. Six ORNL-UT Distinguished Scientists appointed; Voyager space probe (which is carrying an ORNL-made alloy) has close encounter with Uranus; ORNL officials tell congressional committees of budget impacts
- Books. The Nuclear Connection: A reassessment of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation_ (edited by Alvin Weinberg et al.) is reviewed
Vol. 17, No. 4, ( 1984)
- Acid Rain and Dry Deposition of Atmospheric Pollutants: ORNL Studies the Effects. Acidic precipitation and atmospheric deposition may be involved in the decline of some forests and in the elevation of aluminum levels in streams. ORNL researchers play an important role in pinpointing the effects of atmospheric pollutants on vegetation, fish, and surface waters.
- Photosynthetic Water Splitting. Using light and algae or nonliving systems, ORNL scientists have photosynthetically split water into oxygen and hydrogen, a clean fuel and chemical feedstock.
- Simulating Processes Within the Earth: Experimental Geochemistry at ORNL. Geochemists at ORNL are using unique devices to simulate in a very short time the chemical processes that form rocks and minerals. The basic research may help solve problems affecting geothermal power, nuclear waste isolation, and exploration for ores and natural gas.
- Drinking Water and Cardiovascular Disease. An epidemiological study of Wisconsin farmers indicates that persons with cardiovascular disease drink softer water than persons without the disease.
- Environmental and Health Impacts of Water Chlorination. ORNL chemist Bob Jolley was the first to identify potentially hazardous organic compounds formed by adding chlorine to wastewater. He has also led an effort to identify drinking water compounds that cause thyroid disease.
- Groundwater Pollution: Environmental and Legal Problems. A book edited by two ORNL researchers discusses the implications of groundwater pollution caused by human discharges of synthetic chemicals. ORNL scientists' attempts to monitor and prevent deteriorative groundwater quality are explored.
- From the Editor. Water is this issue's theme
- Books. E. G. Silver reviews Before It's Too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Energy.
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- Technical Capsules Structure of water studied; Iodine hydrolysis and reactors; ORNL has four IR 100 winners
- Awards and Appointments
- Reader's Comment