Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Isotopes (5)
- Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Biology and Environment (12)
- Clean Energy (23)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (2)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Fusion and Fission (9)
- Fusion Energy (4)
- Materials (13)
- Materials for Computing (2)
- National Security (3)
- Neutron Science (11)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (20)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (17)
Media Contacts
As a medical isotope, thorium-228 has a lot of potential — and Oak Ridge National Laboratory produces a lot.
A rare isotope in high demand for treating cancer is now more available to pharmaceutical companies developing and testing new drugs.
Brian Damiano, head of the Centrifuge Engineering and Fabrication Section, has been elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
East Tennessee occupies a special place in nuclear history. In 1943, the world’s first continuously operating reactor began operating on land that would become ORNL.
When Sandra Davern looks to the future, she sees individualized isotopes sent into the body with a specific target: cancer cells.