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![Germina Ilas (left) and Ian Gauld review spent fuel data entries in the SFCOMPO 2.0 database. Germina Ilas (left) and Ian Gauld review spent fuel data entries in the SFCOMPO 2.0 database.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2018-P00005_r3_0.jpg?itok=FrGhhOuK)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided significant contributions and coordination in the development of the Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA’s) recently released Spent Fuel Isotopic Composition (SFCOMPO) 2.0—the world’s largest open database for spent
![A conceptual illustration of proton-proton fusion in which two protons fuse to form a deuteron. Image courtesy of William Detmold. A conceptual illustration of proton-proton fusion in which two protons fuse to form a deuteron. Image courtesy of William Detmold.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/ppfusion%5B2%5D%20R1.png?itok=i8NTzm-5)
Nuclear physicists are using the nation’s most powerful supercomputer, Titan, at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to study particle interactions important to energy production in the Sun and stars and to propel the search for new physics discoveries Direct calculatio...