Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Clean Energy (147)
- (-) Isotopes (10)
- (-) Materials (80)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (41)
- Advanced Manufacturing (7)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (124)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Building Technologies (2)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (5)
- Computational Biology (2)
- Computational Engineering (3)
- Computer Science (15)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Energy Sciences (1)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- Fusion and Fission (30)
- Fusion Energy (11)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Materials for Computing (15)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (34)
- Neutron Science (33)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (7)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (130)
News Topics
- (-) Biomedical (15)
- (-) Clean Water (10)
- (-) Computer Science (39)
- (-) Environment (64)
- (-) High-Performance Computing (9)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (56)
- (-) Polymers (21)
- (-) Security (8)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (71)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (91)
- Advanced Reactors (17)
- Artificial Intelligence (13)
- Big Data (7)
- Bioenergy (30)
- Biology (12)
- Biotechnology (4)
- Buildings (36)
- Chemical Sciences (33)
- Climate Change (23)
- Composites (19)
- Coronavirus (15)
- Critical Materials (19)
- Cybersecurity (11)
- Decarbonization (34)
- Energy Storage (86)
- Exascale Computing (3)
- Fossil Energy (2)
- Frontier (3)
- Fusion (15)
- Grid (41)
- Hydropower (2)
- Irradiation (2)
- Isotopes (36)
- ITER (1)
- Machine Learning (10)
- Materials (94)
- Materials Science (92)
- Mathematics (3)
- Mercury (3)
- Microelectronics (1)
- Microscopy (29)
- Molten Salt (7)
- Nanotechnology (41)
- National Security (7)
- Net Zero (3)
- Neutron Science (46)
- Partnerships (16)
- Physics (31)
- Quantum Computing (3)
- Quantum Science (12)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Simulation (4)
- Space Exploration (12)
- Statistics (1)
- Summit (6)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (6)
- Transportation (69)
Media Contacts
ORNL’s Luiz Leal of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the recipient of the 2023 Seaborg Medal from the American Nuclear Society.
Anne Campbell, a researcher at ORNL, recently won the Young Leaders Professional Development Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, or TMS, and has been chosen as the first recipient of the Young Leaders International Scholar Program award from TMS and the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, or KIM.
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.
Little of the mixed consumer plastics thrown away or placed in recycle bins actually ends up being recycled. Nearly 90% is buried in landfills or incinerated at commercial facilities that generate greenhouse gases and airborne toxins. Neither outcome is ideal for the environment.
In a finding that helps elucidate how molten salts in advanced nuclear reactors might behave, scientists have shown how electrons interacting with the ions of the molten salt can form three states with different properties. Understanding these states can help predict the impact of radiation on the performance of salt-fueled reactors.
ORNL, a bastion of nuclear physics research for the past 80 years, is poised to strengthen its programs and service to the United States over the next decade if national recommendations of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, or NSAC, are enacted.
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
Researchers at ORNL are developing advanced automation techniques for desalination and water treatment plants, enabling them to save energy while providing affordable drinking water to small, parched communities without high-quality water supplies.