Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Materials (6)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (4)
- Advanced Manufacturing (3)
- Biology and Environment (26)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Clean Energy (34)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Fusion and Fission (4)
- Isotopes (2)
- Materials for Computing (1)
- National Security (12)
- Neutron Science (4)
- Supercomputing (27)
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (5)
- (-) Cybersecurity (1)
- (-) Molten Salt (1)
- (-) Space Exploration (2)
- Advanced Reactors (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Big Data (2)
- Bioenergy (2)
- Biomedical (2)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (7)
- Clean Water (2)
- Composites (2)
- Computer Science (9)
- Coronavirus (2)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (6)
- Environment (6)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Fusion (8)
- Grid (2)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Isotopes (7)
- Machine Learning (2)
- Materials (19)
- Materials Science (17)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (6)
- Nanotechnology (8)
- Neutron Science (10)
- Nuclear Energy (22)
- Partnerships (3)
- Physics (12)
- Polymers (4)
- Quantum Computing (1)
- Security (1)
- Summit (1)
- Sustainable Energy (2)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (4)
Media Contacts
On Feb. 18, the world will be watching as NASA’s Perseverance rover makes its final descent into Jezero Crater on the surface of Mars. Mars 2020 is the first NASA mission that uses plutonium-238 produced at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
About 60 years ago, scientists discovered that a certain rare earth metal-hydrogen mixture, yttrium, could be the ideal moderator to go inside small, gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
Radioactive isotopes power some of NASA’s best-known spacecraft. But predicting how radiation emitted from these isotopes might affect nearby materials is tricky
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.
From materials science and earth system modeling to quantum information science and cybersecurity, experts in many fields run simulations and conduct experiments to collect the abundance of data necessary for scientific progress.
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 race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.
In the shifting landscape of global manufacturing, American ingenuity is once again giving U.S companies an edge with radical productivity improvements as a result of advanced materials and robotic systems developed at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Thanks in large part to developing and operating a facility for testing molten salt reactor (MSR) technologies, nuclear experts at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are now tackling the next generation of another type of clean energy—concentrating ...