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Mirzadeh, Moyer, Wesolowski named ORNL Corporate Fellows

June 30, 2016

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

A FLiNaK mixture of salt was circulated for the first time in the Liquid Salt Test Loop (LSTL)

June 30, 2016

DelCul receives Actinide Separations Conference's Seaborg Award

June 15, 2016

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.

Berkelium-249, contained in the greenish fluid in the tip of the vial, was crucial to the experiment that discovered element 117. It was made in the research reactor at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Provisional names announced for superheavy elements 113, 115, 117, and 118

June 8, 2016

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.

ORNL conducted a one-week Generalist Course for radioactive material package shielding evaluation and nuclear criticality safety evaluations

June 1, 2016

•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

ORNL staff completed evaluation of incorporating standardized canisters into integrated waste management system

May 30, 2016

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

StarCCM+ CFD model used to support low flow qualification of the HFIR HB-1 beam tube

May 30, 2016

•The cooling flow rate for the HFIR HB-1 beam tube has been slowly degrading over time •The HB-1 beam flow has now crossed the previously established low-flow alarm limit of 15 gallon/min •This required a new HB-1 flow safety calculation to support

Analyses of key problems strengthen confidence in ORNL's new Shift Monte Carlo code

May 30, 2016

•A global background radiation source and cesium threat source were simulated in the Fort Indiantown Gap training facility model •Excellent agreement was found between Shift and MAVRIC and various detector locations throughout the model •This validation bu

Uncertainty Quantification in (α,n) Neutron Source Calculations in an Oxide Matrix

April 1, 2016

Background and Motivation Nuclear data describing α-particle interactions on light nuclei are essential for calculating (α,n) neutron emissions Currently, in codes like SOURCES4C, there is no uncertainty data to estimate neutron source intensities or

ORNL’s Davison, DePaoli elected AlChE fellows

March 18, 2016

Brian Davison and David DePaoli of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The fellowship is AIChE’s highest grade of membership and honors senior members

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Mirzadeh, Moyer, Wesolowski named ORNL Corporate Fellows

A FLiNaK mixture of salt was circulated for the first time in the Liquid Salt Test Loop (LSTL)

DelCul receives Actinide Separations Conference's Seaborg Award

Provisional names announced for superheavy elements 113, 115, 117, and 118

ORNL conducted a one-week Generalist Course for radioactive material package shielding evaluation and nuclear criticality safety evaluations

ORNL staff completed evaluation of incorporating standardized canisters into integrated waste management system

StarCCM+ CFD model used to support low flow qualification of the HFIR HB-1 beam tube

Analyses of key problems strengthen confidence in ORNL's new Shift Monte Carlo code

Uncertainty Quantification in (α,n) Neutron Source Calculations in an Oxide Matrix

ORNL’s Davison, DePaoli elected AlChE fellows