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Michelle Buchanan has been named director of the Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).Buchanan previously was associate director of ORNL's Life Sciences Division and will remain director of the Center for Structural Molec...
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Nermin A. Uckan of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been named editor-designate of the technical journal Fusion Technology, a publication of the American Nuclear Society. Uckan, a senior scientist and program leader in charge of the ORNL Next-Step Fusion Stud...
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Some of the secrets to achieving fusion energy may be unlocked by calculations developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and run on the lab's supercomputer.Fusion energy, evident in the sun and stars, is the ultimate source of power because it provi...
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Manufacturers of portable instruments or test kits to detect explosives or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in soil and transformer oil will have a better idea of how well their gear works after participating in a program at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).For 10 day...
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Carol H. Scott has been named director of the Operational Safety Services Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).Scott is responsible for directing programs that oversee safety procedures at ORNL. She formerly worked in ORNL's Robotic and Process Systems D...
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James Allen Bucholz of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been named to the Bulgarian Nuclear Society. Bucholz, a nuclear engineer, is a research staff member with ORNL's Computational Physics and Engineering Division, and is currently on assignment to the Spal...
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Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won three R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 107 since the awards began in 1963.
The awards, announced today by ORNL Director Bill Madi...
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Scientists studying the ability of bacteria to clean up contaminated groundwater and soil will be able to do basic research at a field site at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation.DOE has selected its Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to operate a field research center located in Bea...
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Recently acquired supercomputers from IBM and Compaq have made Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) home to the most powerful unclassified computers in the nation and are advancing its leadership role in computational science.
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Determining when a crime victim died can make the difference between a criminal going free or being brought to justice, and researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are developing a system that could help justice prevail.