Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Building Technologies (1)
- (-) Isotopes (2)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (18)
- Advanced Manufacturing (18)
- Biology and Environment (20)
- Clean Energy (96)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (8)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (13)
- Fusion Energy (6)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Materials (94)
- Materials Characterization (1)
- Materials for Computing (14)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (18)
- Neutron Science (70)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Sensors and Controls (2)
- Supercomputing (36)
- Transportation Systems (1)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (3)
- (-) Materials Science (2)
- (-) Neutron Science (3)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (18)
- (-) Physics (1)
- (-) Security (1)
- Advanced Reactors (6)
- Bioenergy (1)
- Biomedical (4)
- Buildings (3)
- Climate Change (1)
- Computer Science (3)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (1)
- Environment (1)
- Fusion (2)
- Irradiation (1)
- Isotopes (12)
- Materials (2)
- Molten Salt (3)
- Space Exploration (6)
- Sustainable Energy (3)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (1)
Media Contacts
More than 50 current employees and recent retirees from ORNL received Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Awards from Secretary Jennifer Granholm in January as part of project teams spanning the national laboratory system. The annual awards recognized 21 teams and three individuals for service and contributions to DOE’s mission and to the benefit of the nation.
Brian Damiano, head of the Centrifuge Engineering and Fabrication Section, has been elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
A developing method to gauge the occurrence of a nuclear reactor anomaly has the potential to save millions of dollars.
After its long journey to Mars beginning this summer, NASA’s Perseverance rover will be powered across the planet’s surface in part by plutonium produced at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Juergen Rapp, a distinguished R&D staff scientist in ORNL’s Fusion Energy Division in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate, has been named a fellow of the American Nuclear Society
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the additive manufacturing process necessary to build it, and developing methods
In the 1960s, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's four-year Molten Salt Reactor Experiment tested the viability of liquid fuel reactors for commercial power generation. Results from that historic experiment recently became the basis for the first-ever molten salt reactor benchmark.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers working on neutron imaging capabilities for nuclear materials have developed a process for seeing the inside of uranium particles – without cutting them open.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 19, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority have signed a memorandum of understanding to evaluate a new generation of flexible, cost-effective advanced nuclear reactors.
As scientists study approaches to best sustain a fusion reactor, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigated injecting shattered argon pellets into a super-hot plasma, when needed, to protect the reactor’s interior wall from high-energy runaway electrons.