Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Computer Science (17)
- (-) Fusion and Fission (12)
- Advanced Manufacturing (11)
- Biology and Environment (65)
- Building Technologies (2)
- Clean Energy (146)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (3)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (3)
- Energy Sciences (1)
- Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- Fusion Energy (5)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (27)
- Materials (125)
- Materials Characterization (1)
- Materials for Computing (21)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (43)
- Neutron Science (37)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (13)
- Quantum information Science (8)
- Sensors and Controls (2)
- Supercomputing (122)
- Transportation Systems (1)
News Topics
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (7)
- (-) Computer Science (17)
- (-) Cybersecurity (1)
- (-) Grid (4)
- (-) Isotopes (1)
- (-) Materials Science (5)
- (-) Microscopy (1)
- (-) Security (2)
- (-) Space Exploration (1)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (6)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (3)
- Advanced Reactors (6)
- Big Data (4)
- Bioenergy (1)
- Biology (1)
- Biomedical (1)
- Buildings (2)
- Chemical Sciences (4)
- Composites (1)
- Critical Materials (1)
- Decarbonization (2)
- Education (1)
- Energy Storage (6)
- Environment (3)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Frontier (1)
- Fusion (22)
- High-Performance Computing (4)
- ITER (6)
- Machine Learning (4)
- Materials (1)
- Nanotechnology (1)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (1)
- Nuclear Energy (26)
- Partnerships (3)
- Physics (1)
- Quantum Science (3)
- Simulation (3)
- Summit (1)
- Transportation (2)
Media Contacts
ORNL is home to the world's fastest exascale supercomputer, Frontier, which was built in part to facilitate energy-efficient and scalable AI-based algorithms and simulations.
In fiscal year 2023 — Oct. 1–Sept. 30, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded more than $8 million in technology maturation funding through the Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, or TCF.
ORNL hosted its fourth Artificial Intelligence for Robust Engineering and Science, or AIRES, workshop from April 18-20. Over 100 attendees from government, academia and industry convened to identify research challenges and investment areas, carving the future of the discipline.
A research team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories won the first Best Open-Source Contribution Award for its paper at the 37th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
ORNL has entered a strategic research partnership with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, or UKAEA, to investigate how different types of materials behave under the influence of high-energy neutron sources. The $4 million project is part of UKAEA's roadmap program, which aims to produce electricity from fusion.
Three researchers at ORNL have been named ORNL Corporate Fellows in recognition of significant career accomplishments and continued leadership in their scientific fields.
Researchers in the geothermal energy industry are joining forces with fusion experts at ORNL to repurpose gyrotron technology, a tool used in fusion. Gyrotrons produce high-powered microwaves to heat up fusion plasmas.
To achieve practical energy from fusion, extreme heat from the fusion system “blanket” component must be extracted safely and efficiently. ORNL fusion experts are exploring how tiny 3D-printed obstacles placed inside the narrow pipes of a custom-made cooling system could be a solution for removing heat from the blanket.
A force within the supercomputing community, Jack Dongarra developed software packages that became standard in the industry, allowing high-performance computers to become increasingly more powerful in recent decades.