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Katy's Kitchen

In 1948, the government erected a funny-looking building in the woods between ORNL and the Y-12 Plant (now the Y-12 National Security Complex). Named Installation Dog, it was a concrete bunker built into the side of a hill, with a vault that would do a bank proud.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory entrance sign

This year, three ORNL scientists will receive grants for $500,000 per year for five years through the Early Career Research Program of DOE's Office of Science to cover salary and research expenses.

Peter Jiang

Peter Jiang has been captivated by physics since his childhood in China.

Elijah Martin

Elijah Martin vividly remembers the first time he heard the word “plasma.”

Benjamin Sulman

Benjamin Sulman, a scientist in ORNL’s Environmental Sciences Division, seeks to fully assess estuarine wetlands by simulating the environment using the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, a DOE leading-edge modeling, simulation and prediction project involving eight national labs, including ORNL.

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As a leader in climate science, clean energy innovations and national security, ORNL is in a unique position to harness extensive expertise and big science tools like the nation’s most powerful

Carbon capture device

ORNL scientists have designed and additively manufactured a first-of-its-kind aluminum device that enhances the capture of carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel plants and other industrial processes.