The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is leading the design of a next-generation spallation neutron source for the Department of Energy (DOE).During a recent lecture at ORNL's Wigner Auditorium, a team of researchers presented proposals for the construction of the National Spallation Neutron Sou...
Three employees of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently participated in the arrangements for the 20th anniversary celebration of Habitat for Humanity held in Atlanta.Representing ORNL were Ron Shelton, Michaela Abraham and Mark Ternes of the Buildings Techn...
Thanks to a problem with a high-tech microscope, researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed microscopic sensors. These hairlike, silicon-based devices are at least 1,000 times more sensitive and 1,000 times smaller than currently used sensors...
Dr. Oakley Crawford, a research staff member in the Health Sciences Research Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was recently elected as a scientific member of the Bohmische Physical Society.
Philip Maziasz, a senior development engineer at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has won the grand prize for the 1996 American Powder Metals Industries (APMI) Powder Metallurgy Metallography Competition.
George Wrenn, group leader in the Engineering Technology Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been named Outstanding Engineer of the Year by the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE).He was honored for "outstanding contributions to his ...
Novel bacteria that produce magnetic material and could remove heavy metals from contaminated soils and groundwater have been discovered by microbiologists from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).The bacteria were discovered by Tommy Phelps of ORNL's Environment...
The Buildings Technology Center of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has installed two new test sections on its Roof Thermal Research Apparatus for measuring the long-term thermal performance of solar radiation control coatings on roofs.
One replaces a similar ...
The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) neutron- and radioisotope-producing research reactor, celebrates its 30th anniversary of reaching 100 percent power Sept. 9. The HFIR, a Department of Energy (DOE) reactor, is one of three federally run neutron-source re...
Three secretaries at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have received awards for their administrative contributions to research programs in the Metals and Ceramics Division.