Radioisotope Production Engineering and Analysis

Delivering Radioisotopes

Staff produces and delivers radioisotopes for national security, medicine, industry and science.

The Perseverance rover, headed for Mars this summer, carries a plutonium isotope produced at ORNL, the first domestic production in about 30 years. As it decays, Pu-238 will power the rover and its instruments across the planet. Credit: NASA

Groups

Target Design, Analysis, and Qualification Group
Radioisotope Infrastructure Development Group

Current Research