Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Advanced Manufacturing (14)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (27)
- Biology and Environment (16)
- Building Technologies (1)
- Clean Energy (100)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Fusion and Fission (18)
- Fusion Energy (9)
- Isotopes (20)
- Materials (39)
- Materials for Computing (5)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (12)
- Neutron Science (8)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Supercomputing (12)
- Transportation Systems (2)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (16)
- (-) Isotopes (3)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (27)
- Advanced Reactors (9)
- Biomedical (1)
- Composites (3)
- Computer Science (1)
- Coronavirus (1)
- Fusion (8)
- Materials (6)
- Materials Science (7)
- Molten Salt (4)
- Neutron Science (5)
- Physics (1)
- Space Exploration (4)
- Sustainable Energy (3)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (2)
Media Contacts
Radioactive isotopes power some of NASA’s best-known spacecraft. But predicting how radiation emitted from these isotopes might affect nearby materials is tricky
A developing method to gauge the occurrence of a nuclear reactor anomaly has the potential to save millions of dollars.
The inside of future nuclear fusion energy reactors will be among the harshest environments ever produced on Earth. What’s strong enough to protect the inside of a fusion reactor from plasma-produced heat fluxes akin to space shuttles reentering Earth’s atmosphere?
It’s a new type of nuclear reactor core. And the materials that will make it up are novel — products of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s advanced materials and manufacturing technologies.
As CASL ends and transitions to VERA Users Group, ORNL looks at the history of the program and its impact on the nuclear industry.
Lithium, the silvery metal that powers smart phones and helps treat bipolar disorders, could also play a significant role in the worldwide effort to harvest on Earth the safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy that powers the sun and stars.
Temperatures hotter than the center of the sun. Magnetic fields hundreds of thousands of times stronger than the earth’s. Neutrons energetic enough to change the structure of a material entirely.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have discovered a better way to separate actinium-227, a rare isotope essential for an FDA-approved cancer treatment.
Scientists at the Department of Energy Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL have their eyes on the prize: the Transformational Challenge Reactor, or TCR, a microreactor built using 3D printing and other new approaches that will be up and running by 2023.
In the 1960s, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's four-year Molten Salt Reactor Experiment tested the viability of liquid fuel reactors for commercial power generation. Results from that historic experiment recently became the basis for the first-ever molten salt reactor benchmark.