Fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors are a promising design in the next generation of nuclear energy production, and one of the first steps from concept to reality is underway at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Approximately 100 trillion neutrinos bombard your body every second—but you don’t notice these ghostly subatomic particles.
•A team comprised of staff from the ...
•This capability is integrated with the UNF-ST&DARDS Unified Database (UDB) allowing continuous table, report, and graphics updating as the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) cask inventory changes
–Users can generate reports in different formats (e.g., PDF, htm
Saed Mirzadeh, Bruce Moyer and David Wesolowski have been named Corporate Fellows at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, earning the Department of Energy laboratory’s most prestigious designation for researchers.
ORNL’s Corporate Fellows are recognized for sig
Guillermo Daniel (Bill) DelCul of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has received the Glenn T. Seaborg Award at the 40th Actinide Separations Conference.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Inorganic Chemistry Division has published a Provisional Recommendation for the names and symbols of the recently discovered superheavy elements 113, 115, 117, and 118.
•At the request of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Generalist and Analyst Courses were created for preparing DOE federal and contractor radiation shielding and criticality safety reviewers and practitioners involved in packaging and transport
Standardization is a potential option for better integration between storage, transportation, and eventual disposal
BRC, NEAC, NWTRB support effort
Third evaluation on topic over the last three fiscal years
Analyzed an additional 10 scenarios