Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Climate Change (2)
- (-) Cybersecurity (2)
- (-) Frontier (1)
- (-) Fusion (13)
- (-) Isotopes (6)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (15)
- Advanced Reactors (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (12)
- Big Data (6)
- Bioenergy (9)
- Biology (5)
- Biomedical (11)
- Biotechnology (2)
- Buildings (4)
- Chemical Sciences (3)
- Clean Water (2)
- Composites (1)
- Computer Science (23)
- Coronavirus (11)
- Decarbonization (5)
- Emergency (1)
- Energy Storage (9)
- Environment (13)
- Exascale Computing (3)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Grid (5)
- High-Performance Computing (4)
- Machine Learning (4)
- Materials (4)
- Materials Science (15)
- Mathematics (3)
- Mercury (1)
- Microscopy (4)
- Nanotechnology (4)
- National Security (4)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (11)
- Nuclear Energy (21)
- Partnerships (4)
- Physics (8)
- Polymers (1)
- Quantum Computing (3)
- Quantum Science (12)
- Security (3)
- Simulation (3)
- Space Exploration (4)
- Summit (10)
- Sustainable Energy (7)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (6)
Media Contacts
College intern Noah Miller is on his 3rd consecutive internship at ORNL, currently working on developing an automated pellet inspection system for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Plutonium-238 Supply Program. Along with his success at ORNL, Miller is also focusing on becoming a mentor for kids, giving back to the place where he discovered his passion and developed his skills.
Chuck Greenfield, former assistant director of the DIII-D National Fusion Program at General Atomics, has joined ORNL as ITER R&D Lead.
ORNL scientists and researchers attended the annual American Geophysical Union meeting and came away inspired for the year ahead in geospatial, earth and climate science.
A key industrial isotope, iridium-192, has not been produced in the U.S. in almost 20 years. DOE's Isotope Program and QSA Global Inc. announced a joint product development agreement to initiate U.S. production of iridium-192.
ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, co-hosted the 2023 National Society of Black Physicists Annual Conference with the theme "Frontiers in Physics: From Quantum to Materials to the Cosmos.” As part of the three-day conference held near UT, attendees took a 30-mile trip to the ORNL campus for facility tours, science talks and workshops.
New computational framework speeds discovery of fungal metabolites, key to plant health and used in drug therapies and for other uses.
In summer 2023, ORNL's Prasanna Balaprakash was invited to speak at a roundtable discussion focused on the importance of academic artificial intelligence research and development hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
The 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications, Oct. 23-26 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton West in Knoxville, attracted 109 researchers, including some from Austria and the Czech Republic. Besides attending many technical sessions, they had the opportunity to tour the Graphite Reactor, High Flux Isotope Reactor and both supercomputers at ORNL.
Porter Bailey started and will end his 33-year career at ORNL in the same building: 7920 of the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center.
The INFUSE fusion program announced a second round of 2020 public-private partnership awards to accelerate fusion energy development.