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Andrew Briggs

Andrew Briggs is the inaugural chair in nanomaterials at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his early work using acoustic microscopy to solve problems in materials science and for more recent work developing materials and techniques for quantum technologies. His laborato...

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ORNL is proud of its role in fostering the next generation of scientists and engineers. We bring in talented young researchers, team them with accomplished scientists and engineers, and put them to work at the lab's one-of-a-kind facilities. The result is research that makes us proud and prepar...

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A casual observer might be forgiven for thinking the Manhattan Project produced nothing more than a bomb. In reality, the physicists who harnessed the atom also opened the door to a practically inexhaustible energy source.

That reality was clear to future Nobel Prize-winner Eugene Wigner. When Wi...

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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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Electricity powers our work and our lives, keeps us warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and drives the economy. The distribution of electric power around the world—electrification, as it’s called—is so important, it was named the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the Nat...