Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- (-) Fusion Energy (2)
- Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (27)
- Clean Energy (40)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (4)
- Isotopes (16)
- Materials (39)
- Materials for Computing (6)
- National Security (12)
- Neutron Science (15)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (3)
- Quantum information Science (4)
- Supercomputing (28)
Date
Media Contacts
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are supporting the grid by improving its smallest building blocks: power modules that act as digital switches.
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.