The Department of Energy has committed funding to establish UNITY-3, a fusion breeding blanket test facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Kyoto Fusioneering.
ORNL has licensed a suite of cryogenic pellet fueling technologies to Type One Energy, advancing a critical capability for high-performance fusion plasma operations.
ORNL and Rutherford Energy Ventures have launched FULCRA, a public-private partnership to develop shared fusion testbed infrastructure and a new model for advancing fusion technologies.
Rinkle Juneja, an R&D staff scientist at ORNL, has been recognized as an Early Career Distinguished Presenter by the Materials Research Society and was selected to represent ORNL on the “Materials Research at the U.S.
ORNL researchers developed a machine learning model that generates realistic tungsten microstructure images, helping fill gaps in costly experimental data.
ORNL is partnering with Kyoto Fusioneering on a new public-private partnership that leverages each institution’s expertise in fusion technology to develop world-leading fusion test facilities and technology and accelerate the deployment of commercial fu
ORNL, Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are partnering to establish a world-class facility that will drive American innovation and move fusion energy closer to reality.
MPEX is a new ORNL facility designed to recreate the extreme conditions at the edge of fusion reactors so researchers can test how plasma-facing materials survive.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected to lead two new research collaborations and partner on two others under the Fusion Innovation Research Engine, or FIRE, Collaboratives program.
ORNL has been selected to lead three research collaborations with fusion industry partners as part of the 2025 cohort of the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program.