ORNL prepares young researchers to lead ORNL’s Olga Ovchinnikova saw an opportunity early this year during a one-on-one meeting with Thomas Zacharia. Zacharia, the lab’s deputy for science and technology, makes a point of sitting down with young scientists. Ovchinnikova, a chemical physicist i...
Although the neutron is a senior citizen of sorts, whose existence was predicted in 1920 and confirmed in 1932, it’s still not fully understood.
It was James Chadwick of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory who, after nearly a decade of experimentation, devised a method to detect these particles, whi...
Refrigerators using the magnetocaloric effect will be both greener and more energy efficient than conventional appliances.
Researchers with the ORNL-based Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors have performed the first major computational simulation of the operation of a nuclear power reactor.
Using a software suite known as the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications, or VERA, they modeled t...
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