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Soybean oil is especially versatile. It fries chicken. It makes a tasty salad dressing. Believe it or not, it can remove uranium from groundwater, too.

ORNL investigators have developed a method for reducing both nitrate and uranium in groundwater by using the energy found in soybean oil. Their a...

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ORNL’s Vehicle System Integration Laboratory evaluates new vehicles before they exist. Simulated real-world conditions combine with advanced data collection to give engineers the information they need, both on individual components and on entire systems. As a result they can create high-performance,...

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Oak Ridge has a unique relationship to the science of mercury contamination. In the 1950s and ’60s, the city’s Y-12 nuclear weapons plant released around 350,000 pounds of mercury into Upper East Fork Poplar Creek and other local waterways, making the region a de facto laboratory for mercury in the ...

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It produces more than 2 million billion neutrons each second through an area less than half the size of a dime, providing researchers with the Western world’s highest reactor-based neutron flux. Its neutron scattering stations allow scientists to better understand the structure and dynamics of matte...

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Frances H. Arnold is the Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. She is a pioneer of “directed evolution,” which mimics Darwinian evolution in the laboratory to create new biological molecules. Her research is particula...

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The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment achieved its first self-sustaining nuclear reaction on June 1, 1965. Three years later, on Oct. 8, 1968, it became the first reactor ever to run on uranium-233.

MSRE was noteworthy in at least three respects. Beside running on U-233 and acting as an economic...

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Local Motors CEO Jay Rogers became the first person to drive the first 3-D printed car on September 13, 2014.

Built on site at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago over the previous six days, the vehicle—known as a Strati—demonstrated the ability of a national laboratory to ...