nLine, a start-up Austin, Texas, company using a technology developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has received an Advanced Technology Program award of $9.4 million. The Department of Commerce award will allow nLine and partners to speed development of a second...
The Superconductivity Materials Group of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is participating in an effort that has earned a Collaboration Success Award from the Council for Chemical Research. The organization selected the Wire Development Group, of which the Oak Ri...
Researchers at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility recently chalked up a physics "first": the simultaneous emission of two protons from an atom's decaying nucleus. The finding, based on preliminary experiments with the Holifield Facility's unique fluorine-17 beam, also represents a new type ...
With water heating consuming about 17 percent of the energy for a typical household, it's a good place to start when cutting costs. ORNL's Building Technology Center is assisting in developing a heat pump water heater as a "drop-in" replacement for a conventional 50- or 80-gallon water heater. It fe...
An ORNL team will receive more than $1.1 million over the next three years to develop technology for reliable and automatic forewarning of failure in critical equipment at next-generation nuclear power plants. Such forewarning would allow timely maintenance to reduce unanticipated shutdown time and ...
Nermin A. Uckan of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been named editor-designate of the technical journal Fusion Technology, a publication of the American Nuclear Society. Uckan, a senior scientist and program leader in charge of the ORNL Next-Step Fusion Stud...
Michelle Buchanan has been named director of the Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).Buchanan previously was associate director of ORNL's Life Sciences Division and will remain director of the Center for Structural Molec...
Some of the secrets to achieving fusion energy may be unlocked by calculations developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and run on the lab's supercomputer.Fusion energy, evident in the sun and stars, is the ultimate source of power because it provi...
Manufacturers of portable instruments or test kits to detect explosives or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in soil and transformer oil will have a better idea of how well their gear works after participating in a program at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).For 10 day...
James Allen Bucholz of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been named to the Bulgarian Nuclear Society. Bucholz, a nuclear engineer, is a research staff member with ORNL's Computational Physics and Engineering Division, and is currently on assignment to the Spal...