Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Fusion Energy (2)
- (-) Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Advanced Manufacturing (5)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (57)
- Clean Energy (85)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (3)
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (1)
- Fusion and Fission (11)
- Isotopes (23)
- Materials (127)
- Materials Characterization (2)
- Materials for Computing (15)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (31)
- Neutron Science (42)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (7)
- Quantum information Science (3)
- Supercomputing (68)
Media Contacts
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.
With the production of 50 grams of plutonium-238, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have restored a U.S. capability dormant for nearly 30 years and set the course to provide power for NASA and other missions.