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ORNL researchers and partners at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Wisconsin-based Eck Industries have developed aluminum alloys that are both easier to work with and more heat tolerant than existing products.

What may be more important, however, is that the alloys—which contain cerium—h...

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We sat down with ORNL Director Thom Mason to discuss the energy challenge: How is the national laboratory finding ways to provide the energy needed to support a higher quality of life for a growing global population without harm to the environment or intractable conflict over finite resources? ...

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Roald Hoffmann, a corecipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University. Having survived World War II, he came to the U.S. in 1949. Besides his scientific achievements, Hoffmann is an accomplished author who has publishe...

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Over four decades in operation, the Hanford Site in eastern Washington state had as many as nine nuclear reactors at a time working with five processing complexes to produce plutonium for America’s nuclear arsenal.

On the other side of the country, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina ...

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The waste tanks at Hanford and Savannah River may not be DOE’s only environmental challenge, but they’re at the top of the list.

Hundreds of tanks hold 90 million gallons of highly radioactive, extremely toxic liquids and sludges. The tanks are in constant flux, although they are nowhere ne...

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The world below our feet can be as important as the one we see around us. It provides many things we need, including drinking water, but it also carries contaminants that poison that water.

Much of what we know about underground contamination comes from scientists such as geochemist David Wesolow...

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A scientific breakthrough by ORNL researchers is allowing millions of gallons of dangerous waste in South Carolina to be removed from the environment and processed for safe disposal.

The waste is a toxic, highly radioactive soup left over from the Savannah River Site’s days creating and processin...