Filter News
Area of Research
- Biology and Environment (7)
- Clean Energy (27)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (9)
- Fusion Energy (2)
- Isotopes (4)
- Materials (51)
- Materials Characterization (2)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (6)
- Neutron Science (13)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (6)
- Supercomputing (13)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (3)
- (-) Biomedical (9)
- (-) Composites (7)
- (-) Materials (54)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (26)
- (-) Quantum Science (11)
- (-) Transportation (23)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (24)
- Artificial Intelligence (26)
- Big Data (9)
- Bioenergy (24)
- Biology (30)
- Biotechnology (6)
- Buildings (13)
- Chemical Sciences (22)
- Clean Water (6)
- Climate Change (31)
- Computer Science (34)
- Coronavirus (4)
- Critical Materials (6)
- Cybersecurity (12)
- Decarbonization (29)
- Education (3)
- Emergency (1)
- Energy Storage (21)
- Environment (44)
- Exascale Computing (14)
- Fossil Energy (2)
- Frontier (17)
- Fusion (11)
- Grid (19)
- High-Performance Computing (31)
- Hydropower (3)
- Irradiation (1)
- Isotopes (15)
- Machine Learning (14)
- Materials Science (20)
- Mathematics (2)
- Mercury (3)
- Microelectronics (2)
- Microscopy (10)
- Molten Salt (5)
- Nanotechnology (13)
- National Security (19)
- Net Zero (5)
- Neutron Science (38)
- Partnerships (24)
- Physics (19)
- Polymers (8)
- Quantum Computing (12)
- Renewable Energy (2)
- Security (9)
- Simulation (28)
- Software (1)
- Space Exploration (6)
- Summit (11)
- Sustainable Energy (17)
Media Contacts
In fiscal year 2023 — Oct. 1–Sept. 30, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded more than $8 million in technology maturation funding through the Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, or TCF.
The heat is on at this year’s Molten Salt Reactor Workshop – where top research and industry minds are melding to advance development on molten salt technology – at ORNL.
Currently, the biggest hurdle for electric vehicles, or EVs, is the development of advanced battery technology to extend driving range, safety and reliability.
As vehicles gain technological capabilities, car manufacturers are using an increasing number of computers and sensors to improve situational awareness and enhance the driving experience.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted the second 2023 cohort of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Lise Meitner Programme in October.
Little of the mixed consumer plastics thrown away or placed in recycle bins actually ends up being recycled. Nearly 90% is buried in landfills or incinerated at commercial facilities that generate greenhouse gases and airborne toxins. Neither outcome is ideal for the environment.
Steven Campbell can often be found deep among tall cases of power electronics, hunkered in his oversized blue lab coat, with 1500 volts of electricity flowing above his head. When interrupted in his laboratory at ORNL, Campbell will usually smile and duck his head.
In a finding that helps elucidate how molten salts in advanced nuclear reactors might behave, scientists have shown how electrons interacting with the ions of the molten salt can form three states with different properties. Understanding these states can help predict the impact of radiation on the performance of salt-fueled reactors.
Using neutrons to see the additive manufacturing process at the atomic level, scientists have shown that they can measure strain in a material as it evolves and track how atoms move in response to stress.
ORNL, a bastion of nuclear physics research for the past 80 years, is poised to strengthen its programs and service to the United States over the next decade if national recommendations of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, or NSAC, are enacted.