Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Computational Engineering (1)
- (-) Fusion and Fission (17)
- (-) Materials (15)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (11)
- (-) Quantum information Science (1)
- Advanced Manufacturing (1)
- Biology and Environment (10)
- Building Technologies (3)
- Clean Energy (61)
- Computer Science (7)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (2)
- Fusion Energy (11)
- National Security (21)
- Neutron Science (3)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (28)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Buildings (2)
- (-) Critical Materials (5)
- (-) Cybersecurity (2)
- (-) Frontier (1)
- (-) Fusion (25)
- (-) Grid (3)
- (-) Machine Learning (3)
- (-) Molten Salt (5)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (14)
- Advanced Reactors (12)
- Artificial Intelligence (6)
- Big Data (3)
- Bioenergy (4)
- Biomedical (5)
- Chemical Sciences (12)
- Clean Water (4)
- Climate Change (1)
- Composites (6)
- Computer Science (17)
- Coronavirus (3)
- Decarbonization (3)
- Energy Storage (14)
- Environment (10)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- High-Performance Computing (3)
- Isotopes (10)
- ITER (4)
- Materials (31)
- Materials Science (36)
- Mathematics (2)
- Microscopy (14)
- Nanotechnology (17)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (16)
- Nuclear Energy (51)
- Partnerships (3)
- Physics (16)
- Polymers (10)
- Quantum Computing (2)
- Quantum Science (8)
- Security (2)
- Simulation (2)
- Space Exploration (5)
- Summit (1)
- Sustainable Energy (9)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (11)
Media Contacts
Two fusion energy leaders have joined ORNL in the Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate, or FFESD.
ORNL is leading three research collaborations with fusion industry partners through the Innovation Network for FUSion Energy, or INFUSE, program that will focus on resolving technical challenges and developing innovative solutions to make practical fusion energy a reality.
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.
ORNL will lead three new DOE-funded projects designed to bring fusion energy to the grid on a rapid timescale.
Creating energy the way the sun and stars do — through nuclear fusion — is one of the grand challenges facing science and technology. What’s easy for the sun and its billions of relatives turns out to be particularly difficult on Earth.
ORNL will team up with six of eight companies that are advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants with the mission to achieve a pilot-scale demonstration of fusion within a decade.
As renewable sources of energy such as wind and sun power are being increasingly added to the country’s electrical grid, old-fashioned nuclear energy is also being primed for a resurgence.
ORNL scientists combined two ligands, or metal-binding molecules, to target light and heavy lanthanides simultaneously for exceptionally efficient separation.
When virtually unlimited energy from fusion becomes a reality on Earth, Phil Snyder and his team will have had a hand in making it happen.
Scientists at ORNL developed a competitive, eco-friendly alternative made without harmful blowing agents.