Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Clean Energy (18)
- (-) National Security (2)
- Biology and Environment (17)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (8)
- Fusion Energy (2)
- Isotopes (1)
- Materials (6)
- Materials for Computing (2)
- Neutron Science (5)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (12)
- Quantum information Science (4)
- Supercomputing (13)
News Topics
- (-) Bioenergy (4)
- (-) Clean Water (1)
- (-) Coronavirus (5)
- (-) Grid (3)
- (-) Machine Learning (1)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (2)
- (-) Quantum Science (2)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (5)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (10)
- Advanced Reactors (2)
- Artificial Intelligence (3)
- Big Data (1)
- Biology (1)
- Biomedical (1)
- Buildings (1)
- Climate Change (1)
- Computer Science (6)
- Cybersecurity (3)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (10)
- Environment (8)
- High-Performance Computing (2)
- Materials (2)
- Materials Science (5)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (1)
- Nanotechnology (2)
- National Security (3)
- Neutron Science (2)
- Security (4)
- Summit (2)
- Transportation (8)
Media Contacts
As the United States transitions to clean energy, the country has an ambitious goal: cut carbon dioxide emissions in half by the year 2030, if not before. One of the solutions to help meet this challenge is found at ORNL as part of the Better Plants Program.
Four first-of-a-kind 3D-printed fuel assembly brackets, produced at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been installed and are now under routine operating
ORNL’s Zhenglong Li led a team tasked with improving the current technique for converting ethanol to C3+ olefins and demonstrated a unique composite catalyst that upends current practice and drives down costs. The research was published in ACS Catalysis.
Deborah Frincke, one of the nation’s preeminent computer scientists and cybersecurity experts, serves as associate laboratory director of ORNL’s National Security Science Directorate. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Twenty-seven ORNL researchers Zoomed into 11 middle schools across Tennessee during the annual Engineers Week in February. East Tennessee schools throughout Oak Ridge and Roane, Sevier, Blount and Loudon counties participated, with three West Tennessee schools joining in.
As ORNL’s fuel properties technical lead for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Co-Optimization of Fuel and Engines, or Co-Optima, initiative, Jim Szybist has been on a quest for the past few years to identify the most significant indicators for predicting how a fuel will perform in engines designed for light-duty vehicles such as passenger cars and pickup trucks.
Planning for a digitized, sustainable smart power grid is a challenge to which Suman Debnath is using not only his own applied mathematics expertise, but also the wider communal knowledge made possible by his revival of a local chapter of the IEEE professional society.
A collaboration between the ORNL and a Florida-based medical device manufacturer has led to the addition of 500 jobs in the Miami area to support the mass production of N95 respirator masks.
Growing up in Florida, Emma Betters was fascinated by rockets and for good reason. Any time she wanted to see a space shuttle launch from NASA’s nearby Kennedy Space Center, all she had to do was sit on her front porch.
The Transformational Challenge Reactor, or TCR, a microreactor built using 3D printing and other new advanced technologies, could be operational by 2024.