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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have helped develop a vehicular instrument capable of locating small and weak radiation sources on a 100-meter stretch of land.Oak Ridge design engineer Lorenzo Fabris says the vehicular instrument uses images ...
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WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 18, 2007 „ The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) today released a report, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), titled "Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States." The report summarizes what is known about potential effect...

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Scientists in London will be able to use and manipulate, in real-time, leading multi-million dollar scientific instruments and technology in the United States, following this week's official launch of the Global Lab at Imperial College London.
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The United Way campaign at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has experienced another record year, raising $916,298 for East Tennessee agencies.
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A new superconducting wire that can carry increasing loads of electricity has been developed and tested at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge's Parans Paranthaman says the superconducting wire can dramatically increase energy efficiency." These superconducting wires have zero resistance," ...

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25 at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Oak Ridge's Melissa Lapsa says use of solar energy is growing throughout the Southeast. "There are federal incenti...

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory has joined a group of southeastern universities and companies to promote growth of the region's nuclear technologies and education programs. The agreement signed recently by the laboratory and the Southeastern Universities Nuclear Reactor Institute for Science and ...

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Speaking at an Oak Ridge community forum, recently named Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason said new world challenges have opened exciting opportunities for his facility and its many expanding programs.
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SensorPedia, a writeable Web site in development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, solves a huge problem by giving emergency responders and decision-makers access to data from diverse sensor networks in near real time.Bryan Gorman of ORNL's Computational Sciences and Engineering Division notes...
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A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change. The new Community and Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI) will be implemented in Gulfport, Miss., Memphis, an...