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![Kevin Robb, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is taking what he learned from developing the Liquid Salt Test Loop—a key tool in deploying molten salt technology applications Kevin Robb, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is taking what he learned from developing the Liquid Salt Test Loop—a key tool in deploying molten salt technology applications](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2017-P03818_1.jpg?itok=qQLLL9dH)
Thanks in large part to developing and operating a facility for testing molten salt reactor (MSR) technologies, nuclear experts at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are now tackling the next generation of another type of clean energy—concentrating ...
![From left, ORNL’s Rick Lowden, Chris Bryan and Jim Kiggans were troubled that target discs of a material needed to produce Mo-99 using an accelerator could deform after irradiation and get stuck in their holder. From left, ORNL’s Rick Lowden, Chris Bryan and Jim Kiggans were troubled that target discs of a material needed to produce Mo-99 using an accelerator could deform after irradiation and get stuck in their holder.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2018-P01734.jpg?itok=IbSUl9Vc)
“Made in the USA.” That can now be said of the radioactive isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), last made in the United States in the late 1980s. Its short-lived decay product, technetium-99m (Tc-99m), is the most widely used radioisotope in medical diagnostic imaging. Tc-99m is best known ...
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![Xin Sun of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has received the 2018 Institute Medal from the American Iron and Steel Institute. Xin Sun of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has received the 2018 Institute Medal from the American Iron and Steel Institute.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/XinSun200%20a.jpg?itok=wlzkfZ5X)
Xin Sun, a division director at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2018 Institute Medal from the directors of the American Iron and Steel Institute. The award was presented at the AISI Board of Director's Breakfast in Washingto...
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Larry Baylor has received the 2018 Fusion Technology Award from IEEE. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Larry Baylor has received the 2018 Fusion Technology Award from IEEE.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Baylor200%20a.jpg?itok=ozJtdDix)
For the past six years, some 140 scientists from five institutions have traveled to the Arctic Circle and beyond to gather field data as part of the Department of Energy-sponsored NGEE Arctic project. This article gives insight into how scientists gather the measurements that inform t...
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Esther Parish’s holistic approach to life is apparent not only in her environmental research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but in her careful cultivation of a future crop of young scientists. Her expertise as a geographer coupled with a keen interest in the natural world drives Parish’s resea...
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![Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thomas Zacharia (left) congratulates Jan Jakowski, winner of the 2018 UT-Battelle Scholarship to the University of Tennessee. Photo by Genevieve Martin Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thomas Zacharia (left) congratulates Jan Jakowski, winner of the 2018 UT-Battelle Scholarship to the University of Tennessee. Photo by Genevieve Martin](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/UTBScholJakowski200.jpg?itok=kHorjyp7)
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Christina Forrester’s meticulous nature is a plus for her work leading technical testing and analysis of radiological and nuclear detection devices, whether that work takes her to the Desert Southwest or to her own lab outfitted with specialized