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Research to characterize and reduce the amount of air pollution being emitted by trucks is ongoing at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ORNL engineer Johney Green says with new federal air quality standards starting to take effect this year, his group is working with ...
Herbert A. Mook Jr., a senior researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the Neutron Scattering Society of America's inaugural group of fellows.
An Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist has won the inaugural Nuclear Fusion Award from the International Atomic Energy Agency for a paper on making fusion reactors efficient enough to produce power in this century. Masanori Murakami, a distinguished R&D research staffer within ORNL's Fusion...
The Department of Energy has awarded UT-Battelle a performance evaluation of "A" for the quality and productivity of the company's research and development and for its science and technology program management at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. DOE's "report card" comes after an evaluatio...
Ned Sauthoff, an Oak Ridge physicist leading the U.S. role in a global fusion energy project, has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
An electronic accountability system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will result in savings of more than $2 million per year at one federal facility alone and will ensure 100 percent accountability of employees. A pilot test of the system, which uses radio frequency technology to tag and i...
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee has awarded UT-Battelle its Corporate Donor of the Year Award.Second Harvest Executive Director Elaine Machilea says UT-Battelle has been a strong supporter of Second Harvest's many efforts, including a $50,000 contribution to help provide food and pe...
two teams composed of science and math students from 23 schools competed in last year's Science Bowl. C...
Fiber-reinforced polymer material to construct pipelines that will transport hydrogen to service stations of the future is being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Oak Ridge's Tim Armstrong says a one-mile stretch of polymer piping could cost half the amount of...
A prototype device to forewarn epileptic seizures is being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge researcher Lee Hively says the SeizAlert system studies brain waves.