Researchers with the ORNL-based Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors have performed the first major computational simulation of the operation of a nuclear power reactor.
Using a software suite known as the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications, or VERA, they modeled t...
Rose Boll had just stepped out of a long staff meeting at ORNL when she got an unexpected call. Expecting a sales pitch, she heard instead the story of a patient in Germany who had recently been treated with a medical isotope produced by Boll and a team of ORNL researchers and technicians.
The tr...
The search for materials that can withstand the extreme environment inside advanced fusion research facilities and fusion power reactors is becoming more intense.
A focal point for this search is ORNL’s Material Plasma Exposure Experiment. At the heart of the experiment is a device that ena...