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![Weiju Ren’s knowledgebase is making the nuclear world safer. Called DOE’s Gen IV Materials Handbook, it manages data about structural materials for the Very High Temperature Reactor. Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-08/2019-P03842_0.jpg?h=038cccb3&itok=m32lceNT)
Six new nuclear reactor technologies are set to deploy for commercial use between 2030 and 2040. Called Generation IV nuclear reactors, they will operate with improved performance at dramatically higher temperatures than today’s reactors.
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Ramesh Bhave co-invented a process to recover high-purity rare earth elements from scrapped magnets of computer hard drives (shown here) and other post-consumer wastes. Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-08/01%20-%202019-P01551.jpg?h=036a71b7&itok=HiVIBieH)
Rare earth elements are the “secret sauce” of numerous advanced materials for energy, transportation, defense and communications applications.
![Athena Safa Sefat](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/2018-P09914.jpg?h=98f45ff8&itok=nlxH9bdB)
Athena Safa Sefat, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been awarded the Fellowship of the Institute of Physics (IOP).
![ORNL’s Kate Page, left, received a PECASE citation from Kelvin Droegemeier, Director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Credit: Donica Payne/U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/Page_PECASE_0.jpg?h=cfe8de00&itok=fM2WW1ua)
Two researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE.
![Clarice Phelps and Nathan Brewer](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/PhelpsBrewer_thumb.jpg?h=658a1911&itok=rnSGcjtD)
Two early career researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been included on the “Periodic Table of Younger Chemists” following an international competition conducted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN).
![Larry Allard](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/LarryAllard_thumb.jpg?h=c15413fd&itok=MqqAyv15)
Larry Allard, distinguished research staff member at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2019 Microanalysis Society Presidential Science Award.
![Bruce Moyer](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/Moyer_thumb.jpg?h=d42775dc&itok=4rB8khxp)
Bruce Moyer, leader of the Chemical Separations group in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has won the 2019 Glenn T. Seaborg Award from the Actinide Separations Board.
![The core of a wind turbine blade by XZERES Corporation was produced at the MDF using Cincinnati Incorporated equipment for large-scale 3D printing with foam.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-06/image%201_2019-P01384_0.jpg?h=036a71b7&itok=ohbWG8Xd)
In the shifting landscape of global manufacturing, American ingenuity is once again giving U.S companies an edge with radical productivity improvements as a result of advanced materials and robotic systems developed at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
![Organic chemist Santa Jansone-Popova designs new chemical architectures to support chemical separations that lay the groundwork for clean water and energy advances.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-06/2019-P02364_0.jpg?h=5ed8b357&itok=ZJQ8lUMg)
An organic chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Santa Jansone-Popova focuses on the fundamental challenges of chemical separations that translate to world-changing solutions for clean water and sustainable energy.
![Miaofang Chi](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-05/miaofangchi_thumb.jpg?h=e51fa4e2&itok=nu2SQyNB)
Miaofang Chi, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2019 Kurt Heinrich Award from the Microanalysis Society (MAS).