![This photo is of a male scientist sitting at a desk working with materials, wearing protective glasses.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_square_large/public/2024-07/2023-P08173.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=LnJLvflD)
Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Fusion and Fission (16)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (7)
- Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Biology and Environment (18)
- Clean Energy (13)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (2)
- Computer Science (3)
- Fusion Energy (8)
- Isotopes (17)
- Materials (36)
- Materials for Computing (3)
- National Security (9)
- Neutron Science (15)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Supercomputing (18)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Biomedical (3)
- (-) Fossil Energy (1)
- (-) Fusion (16)
- (-) Isotopes (4)
- (-) Physics (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Advanced Reactors (11)
- Bioenergy (1)
- Biology (1)
- Chemical Sciences (2)
- Computer Science (2)
- Critical Materials (1)
- Decarbonization (2)
- Energy Storage (2)
- Grid (1)
- ITER (5)
- Materials (1)
- Materials Science (5)
- Microscopy (1)
- Molten Salt (3)
- Nanotechnology (1)
- Neutron Science (4)
- Nuclear Energy (33)
- Partnerships (2)
- Security (1)
- Simulation (1)
- Space Exploration (5)
- Sustainable Energy (2)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (1)
- Transportation (2)
Media Contacts
![Argon pellet injection text](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-11/13966_Ar_20degree_enhanced_0.jpg?h=8450e950&itok=tmff0GX_)
As scientists study approaches to best sustain a fusion reactor, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigated injecting shattered argon pellets into a super-hot plasma, when needed, to protect the reactor’s interior wall from high-energy runaway electrons.
![Radiochemical technicians David Denton and Karen Murphy use hot cell manipulators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the production of actinium-227. Radiochemical technicians David Denton and Karen Murphy use hot cell manipulators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the production of actinium-227.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2016-P07827%5B1%5D.jpg?itok=yJbnFQLU)
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now producing actinium-227 (Ac-227) to meet projected demand for a highly effective cancer drug through a 10-year contract between the U.S. DOE Isotope Program and Bayer.
![COHERENT collaborators were the first to observe coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering. Their results, published in the journal Science, confirm a prediction of the Standard Model and establish constraints on alternative theoretical models. Image c COHERENT collaborators were the first to observe coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering. Their results, published in the journal Science, confirm a prediction of the Standard Model and establish constraints on alternative theoretical models. Image c](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/SLIDESHOW%202_collaboration.jpg?itok=icKSVyYi)
After more than a year of operation at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with matter.