Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (4)
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (2)
- (-) Bioenergy (4)
- (-) Machine Learning (3)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (16)
- (-) Security (1)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (7)
- Big Data (2)
- Biomedical (1)
- Chemical Sciences (2)
- Climate Change (1)
- Computer Science (9)
- Coronavirus (2)
- Critical Materials (2)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (6)
- Environment (3)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Fusion (6)
- Isotopes (3)
- Materials (1)
- Materials Science (23)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (3)
- Molten Salt (1)
- Nanotechnology (11)
- National Security (1)
- Neutron Science (11)
- Physics (9)
- Polymers (2)
- Quantum Science (4)
- Space Exploration (2)
- Summit (2)
- Sustainable Energy (5)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (4)
- Transportation (2)
Media Contacts
Six scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were named Battelle Distinguished Inventors, in recognition of obtaining 14 or more patents during their careers at the lab.
The combination of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage could cost-effectively sequester hundreds of millions of metric tons per year of carbon dioxide in the United States, making it a competitive solution for carbon management, according to a new analysis by ORNL scientists.
About 60 years ago, scientists discovered that a certain rare earth metal-hydrogen mixture, yttrium, could be the ideal moderator to go inside small, gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
Radioactive isotopes power some of NASA’s best-known spacecraft. But predicting how radiation emitted from these isotopes might affect nearby materials is tricky
Systems biologist Paul Abraham uses his fascination with proteins, the molecular machines of nature, to explore new ways to engineer more productive ecosystems and hardier bioenergy crops.
The inside of future nuclear fusion energy reactors will be among the harshest environments ever produced on Earth. What’s strong enough to protect the inside of a fusion reactor from plasma-produced heat fluxes akin to space shuttles reentering Earth’s atmosphere?
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ohio State University discovered a new microbial pathway that produces ethylene, providing a potential avenue for biomanufacturing a common component of plastics, adhesives, coolants and other
It’s a new type of nuclear reactor core. And the materials that will make it up are novel — products of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s advanced materials and manufacturing technologies.
As CASL ends and transitions to VERA Users Group, ORNL looks at the history of the program and its impact on the nuclear industry.
After its long journey to Mars beginning this summer, NASA’s Perseverance rover will be powered across the planet’s surface in part by plutonium produced at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.