An Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher from the Fusion and Fission Energy Science Directorate (FFESD) has been chosen to take over an important program at the Physical Sciences Directorate (PSD).
Fusion Power Associates (FPA) Board of Directors has selected Mickey Wade, ORNL associate lab director for Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate (FFESD) at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to receive its 2023 Leadership Award. In a prepared announcement, the FPA Board noted Wade’s history of positive and significant impact on
ORNL recently established a state-of-the-art laboratory capability in the Thermal Hydraulics High-Bay Laboratory to provide a prototypic full-scale high-temperature test environment for high-temperature molten chloride salt energy systems.
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.
On February 9, Joint European Torus researchers from the EUROfusion consortium documented the generation of 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy, more than doubling the previous 1997 record.
Drawing talent from fission, fusion, and materials science, a team led by FFESD is exploring research that will help position the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the host of the first U.S. fusion pilot plant
ITER’s success will depend in part on subduing potential plasma instabilities. This ORNL team is tackling the challenge with shattered pellet injection.
ORNL experts quicken the deployment of next-generation nuclear energy technology by collaborating closely with industry partners. Industry turns to us for scientific and engineering expertise and world-class facilities that can’t easily be replicated. Here we share some of the impacts and success of industry partnerships in the Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate.
