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Vol. 55, No. 2, (Fall 2022)
- Editorial: National security for the 21st century
- To the Point: ORNL Director Zacharia announces retirement, proteins linked to cancer report looks to dams as untapped power sources, study shows that bacteria help peat beat the heat
- National Security: National security science tackles a new generation of threats, high-performance computing boosts uranium research, ORNL tools help ensure energy supply, strengthening cybersecurity in the energy sector, engineers and scientists support nonproliferation efforts
- Focus on Computing: Summit study tackles superconductivity, traffic-based building schedules make smart city even smarter
- Infographic: Securing our nation
- Focus on Neutrons: COVID-19 research moves to antiviral drug design, reducing stress: neutrons help GE improve 3D-printed parts
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Precision machining produces tiny, light-guiding cubes for advancing info tech, polymer gives 3D-printed sand super strength
- Focus on Biology: Microbes turn waste gases into valuable chemicals
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Oak Ridge's last 19th-century building
- Research Insights: Toward a Carbon Neutral Future, Part I: Novel research for shrinking the carbon footprint
Vol. 55, No. 2, (Spring 2022)
- Editorial: ORNL user facilities advance science and technology
- To the Point: Frontier is world’s fastest supercomputer, materials tested in space for radiation effects, perovskite study points to better solar batteries, lignin research points to cheaper biofuels
- ORNL User Facilities: User facilities: Essential support for the country’s researchers, getting down to basic: going big to study the very small, OLCF: serving up bleeding-edge compute power and expertise to the world’s scientists, national user facilities use applied science to accelerate industry growth
- Focus on Neutrons: The secret lives of corn plants caught ‘on camera,’ ORNL helps Nobel laureate improve battery cathodes
- Focus on Quantum: Key witness spills secrets of ‘spooky’ quantum entanglement, real-world demonstration leads to quantum networking milestone
- Focus on Biology: New biosensors shine a light on CRISPR gene editing
- Infographic: Predicting the planet's future
- Focus on Tech Transfer: Mothers (and fathers) of invention: Getting ORNL tech into the world
- Focus on Decarbonization: Decarbonization: Q&A with David Sholl
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Quick detection of uranium isotopes helps safeguard nuclear materials, upcycled: from common plastic to tough, recyclable adhesive, Tiny but mighty precipitates toughen a structural alloy
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Nurse Doris Scott bridged lab’s early race–health disparity
- Research Insights: Atoms for applications: quantum technologies of the future
Vol. 55, No. 1, (Winter 2022)
- Editorial: Pursuing a circular economy
- To the Point: Advance in modeling improves water analysis, ORNL teams take seven R&D 100 awards, new computer code focuses on power grid, nanostructures promote stretchier alloys
- Toward a circular economy: Keeping materials out of landfills, ensuring our water future, lithium recovery: a critical challenge for battery tech
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Welcome to Neutrino Alley: Q&A with ORNL’s Marcel Demarteau, compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities, automated chemistry sets new pace for materials discovery
- Focus on Neutrons: A simple salt: making batteries faster and safer, twist and flex: ‘hinged’ atoms improve solar power specs, after 20 years, physicists find a way to keep track of lost accelerator particles
- Focus on Isotopes: Labwide effort may accelerate cancer treatment approvals
- Focus on Manufacturing: Better Plants Program leads industry partners on sustainability journey
- Focus on Botany: Single gene makes for hardier crops
- Focus on COVID: DOE scientists deploy creativity, speed to disrupt COVID-19
- Infographic: Interrupting COVID-19
- Focus on ITER: First-of-a kind superconducting magnet modules delivered to ITER site
- DOE Early Career Award Winners: A tremendous achievement in a tumultuous year
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Samuel Ting
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have Oak Ridge roots
- Research Insights: Research articles from ORNL staff
Vol. 41, No. 3, ( 2008)
Scientific Myths- Editorial: Challenging scientific myths
- Features: Ethanol forces a choice between food and fuel ... Alzheimer's is an incurable disease ... ORNL glows in the dark ... Enormous supercomputers are making research impractical ... Recycling spent nuclear fuel increases the risk of weapons proliferation ... Only an engineer can operate a zero-energy house ... Lighter cars are less safe than heavier vehicles ... Wireless technologies are inherently unreliable
- A Closer View: Jeff Smith
- Research Horizons: Still the Leader
- Awards: And the Winner Is ...
Vol. 41, No. 2, ( 2008)
Extreme Science- Editorial: Extreme Science
- Features: Miraculous Coatings … Under Extreme Pressure … Extremely Strong … Extremely Waterproof … Molecules in Jail … Defying Traditional Behavior … Where It All Began … The Universe Is Us … Predictions at the Extreme
- A Closer View: Michelle Buchanan
- Research Horizons: Feeling the Heat ... The Next Small Thing
- Awards: And the Winner Is ...
Vol. 41, No. 1, ( 2008)
Pursuing Energy Options- Editorial: The South’s Energy Laboratory
- Features: Southern Solution … The Missing Piece … A Different Path … Facing the Right Direction … Giving Back … Southern Teamwork … Reducing the Appetite … The Ultimate Solution
- A Closer View: Dana Christensen
- Research Horizons: Extending the Half-Life … A Renewed Interest … Mouse-Like … Modeling Metal Fuels …
- Awards: And the Winners Are...
Vol. 25, No. 3, ( 1992)
ORNL: The First 50 Years- Foreword
- Preface
- Prologue
- Letter by Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.
- Chapter 1: Wartime Laboratory
- Atoms in Appalachia
- Revolving Door of Success
- ORNL and TVA
- Leslie R. Groves: Manhattan Project's Main Man
- Safety Margins
- The Silver Lining of the Calutrons
- Chapter 2: High-Flux Years
- Samuel Lind: Tennessee's Own
- Radioisotopes and Health
- Alexander Hollaender: A Radiant Biologist
- Karl Z. Morgan: Man on a Mission
- Ernest Wollan: Badge of Solid Distinction
- Promethium Unbound: A New Element
- From Installation Dog to Katy's Kitchen
- Chapter 3: Accelerating Projects
- Dr. Alvin Weinberg: Mr. ORNL
- Democratic Responsibility
- Small Science in a Big Laboratory
- Clarence Larson: The Right Chemistry
- P. R. Bell: Scanning the Future
- Radiation Effects in Materials: Cultivated in Oak Ridge
- The Russells: A Family Affair
- Rickover: Setting the Nuclear Navy's Course
- Chapter 4: Olympian Feats
- VIPs at the ORR
- 1955 Geneva Conference
- Crossing the Swords
- Ellison Taylor: Player-Coach of Chemistry
- Chapter 5: Balancing Act
- Smoking Out the Facts
- In the Nation's Defense
- Neutrons and JFK
- Laboratory's Collective Strength
- Chapter 6: Responding to Social Needs
- Earth Day 1970
- Nuclear Physics Research: Little Things Mean a Lot
- Y Not Swans?
- ORNL and Nuclear Criticality Safety: From Standards to Software
- Structure and Soundness
- The ECCS Hearings
- Environmental Impact Assessments
- Floyd Culler: Directed with His Boots On
- Chapter 7: Energy Technologies
- Director Herman Postma
- Skyjack '72
- Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
- The Carter Visit
- Oak Ridge's Environmental Park
- Chapter 8: Diversity and Sharing
- Ion Implantation of Materials
- Raising the Quality of Roof Research
- Quest for Fail-Safe Reactors
- Neutron Scattering Research: Born in Oak Ridge
- The States of the Laboratory
- Chapter 9: Global Outreach
- Alex Zucker: From Cyclotrons to Central Administration
- Ceramics and Energy: It's a Materials World
- Director Alvin Trivelpiece
- President Zachary Taylor and the Laboratory: Presidential Visit from the Grave
- Industrial-Strength Science
- The Bush Visit: Molding the Future
- Epilogue
- Additional Reading
- ORNL Technologies Licensed Since 1985 to Private Companies by Energy Systems
- ORNL Technologies Used in Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
- R&D 100 Awards to ORNL Researchers
Vol. 25, No. 2, ( 1992)
Thin Films for Advanced Batteries- State of the Laboratory—1991: Strengthening R&D
- An Eye on Reactor and Computer Control
- Seeking Order in Chaos
- Thin Films for Advanced Batteries
- Waste R&D at ORNL
- New Waste Technologies
- License Renewal for Nuclear Power Plants
- Pick a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- User Facilities: Surface Modification and Characterization Collaborative Research Center
- Educational Activities: ORNL-ORAU partnership in education
- R&D Updates
- Technical Highlights
Vol. 25, No. 1, ( 1992)
Probing Life's Building Blocks- Walker Branch Watershed: DOE's Canary in a Cage
- Technology for the Future Battlefield
- New Technologies for DNA Sequencing
- Covering All the Bases: ORNL Probes the Human Genome Jim Pearce
- ORNL as a Supercomputer Research Center
- Paving the Way to Superconcrete
- A New Look at Supercritical Water
- Small Mammals as Environmental Monitors
- Awards and Appointments
- Pick a Number—Joseph Fourier and his heat flux law
- User Facilities-A new mission for Holifield Heavy Ion Research Facility
- Educational Activities—New training opportunities for students and university faculty
- R&D Updates—Bulk Shielding Reactor permanently shut down; C02 claim disputed by ORNL model; studies of Brazil's rain forest; ORNL's corrective action plan approved; report on advantages of demand-side management; cold neutron source for Advanced Neutron Source promising
- Technical Highlights—Fuzzy-logic chip for controlling robot; studies of vegetation regrowth at Mt. St. Helens; global chemical pollution; space conditions simulated at ORNL
- Technology Transfer—CRADA signing at ORNL witnessed by President Bush; new microwave furnace developed; CRADA involving ORNL, UT, and Dow Chemical; Optics MODIL CRADA; licenses for check valve technology and Raman spectral library
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