Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (1)
- (-) Cybersecurity (2)
- (-) Grid (12)
- (-) Isotopes (8)
- (-) Microscopy (1)
- (-) Space Exploration (2)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (14)
- Big Data (1)
- Bioenergy (3)
- Biology (2)
- Biomedical (3)
- Biotechnology (2)
- Buildings (12)
- Chemical Sciences (8)
- Clean Water (2)
- Climate Change (4)
- Composites (5)
- Coronavirus (2)
- Critical Materials (2)
- Decarbonization (15)
- Energy Storage (15)
- Environment (5)
- Fossil Energy (2)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Hydropower (1)
- Irradiation (1)
- Machine Learning (2)
- Materials (16)
- Materials Science (6)
- Microelectronics (1)
- Nanotechnology (2)
- National Security (2)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (26)
- Nuclear Energy (2)
- Partnerships (7)
- Physics (1)
- Polymers (1)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (1)
- Simulation (2)
- Sustainable Energy (5)
- Transportation (13)
Media Contacts
Researchers at ORNL have been leading a project to understand how a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, could threaten power plants.
Raina Setzer knows the work she does matters. That’s because she’s already seen it from the other side. Setzer, a radiochemical processing technician in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Isotope Processing and Manufacturing Division, joined the lab in June 2023.
In fiscal year 2023 — Oct. 1–Sept. 30, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded more than $8 million in technology maturation funding through the Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, or TCF.
Steven Campbell can often be found deep among tall cases of power electronics, hunkered in his oversized blue lab coat, with 1500 volts of electricity flowing above his head. When interrupted in his laboratory at ORNL, Campbell will usually smile and duck his head.
Sreenivasa Jaldanki, a researcher in the Grid Systems Modeling and Controls group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was recently elevated to senior membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.
ORNL has been selected to lead an Energy Earthshot Research Center, or EERC, focused on developing chemical processes that use sustainable methods instead of burning fossil fuels to radically reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to stem climate change and limit the crisis of a rapidly warming planet.
Carl Dukes’ career as an adept communicator got off to a slow start: He was about 5 years old when he spoke for the first time. “I’ve been making up for lost time ever since,” joked Dukes, a technical professional at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In June, ORNL hit a milestone not seen in more than three decades: producing a production-quality amount of plutonium-238
Neutron experiments can take days to complete, requiring researchers to work long shifts to monitor progress and make necessary adjustments. But thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, experiments can now be done remotely and in half the time.
It was reading about current nuclear discoveries in textbooks that first made Ken Engle want to work at a national lab. It was seeing the real-world impact of the isotopes produced at ORNL