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![Bill Strunk received the ORNL Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology. Bill Strunk received the ORNL Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/BillStrunk200_0.jpg?itok=ZzSEXwP2)
Bill Strunk of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate has received the ORNL Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology. ORNL Director Thom Mason presented the top researcher award to S...
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When it comes to a challenging application for embedded instrumentation and control, none quite beats an environment of molten salt at 700 degrees Celsius. But that is just the application chosen by scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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While trying to decide on an area of technical study as an undergraduate, Madhu Chinthavali visited labs at his college in India. One particular lab where an electrical engineer had devised various motor controls caught his eye. "It wasn't the motor that drew my attention," Ma...
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![Volume rendering from a 3D core-collapse supernova simulation showing the development of strong turbulent convection driven by neutrino heating. This simulation is part of a series of high-resolution 3D simulations from this project using state-of-the-art Volume rendering from a 3D core-collapse supernova simulation showing the development of strong turbulent convection driven by neutrino heating. This simulation is part of a series of high-resolution 3D simulations from this project using state-of-the-art](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/111316-Couch_INCITE17.jpg?itok=RMnz6OOd)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced 55 projects with high potential for accelerating discovery through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. These awards allocate the multi-petascale computing resources at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, two of America’s most powerful supercomputers dedicated to open science.
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![Nearly 200 attendees from national labs, industry, utilities, reactor design firms, and international development companies gathered at ORNL’s latest molten salt reactor workshop. Nearly 200 attendees from national labs, industry, utilities, reactor design firms, and international development companies gathered at ORNL’s latest molten salt reactor workshop.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/MSR_workshop1_0.jpg?itok=cNQyt17z)
Renewed interest in molten salt technology was evident at a recent gathering of advanced nuclear reactor experts at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Nearly 200 attendees from national labs, industry, utilities, reactor design firms,...
![Doctoral student Rachel Seibert works with ORNL mentor Kurt Terrani as part of the lab’s Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis (NESLS) program. Doctoral student Rachel Seibert works with ORNL mentor Kurt Terrani as part of the lab’s Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis (NESLS) program.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Seibert_Terrani_0.jpeg?itok=OZ5vULLd)