Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Advanced Manufacturing (22)
- (-) Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (42)
- Biological Systems (2)
- Biology and Environment (74)
- Building Technologies (1)
- Clean Energy (122)
- Computational Biology (2)
- Computational Engineering (2)
- Computer Science (5)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (32)
- Fusion Energy (13)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (27)
- Materials (104)
- Materials for Computing (11)
- National Security (37)
- Neutron Science (41)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (2)
- Quantum information Science (4)
- Supercomputing (82)
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (25)
- (-) Advanced Reactors (12)
- (-) Bioenergy (2)
- (-) Biomedical (2)
- (-) Cybersecurity (2)
- (-) Frontier (1)
- (-) Isotopes (5)
- (-) Machine Learning (2)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (37)
- (-) Physics (2)
- (-) Space Exploration (6)
- Artificial Intelligence (2)
- Buildings (1)
- Composites (3)
- Computer Science (3)
- Coronavirus (1)
- Decarbonization (2)
- Energy Storage (2)
- Environment (2)
- Fusion (9)
- Grid (1)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Materials (8)
- Materials Science (9)
- Molten Salt (4)
- Neutron Science (7)
- Simulation (1)
- Sustainable Energy (7)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (4)
Media Contacts
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is using ultrasonic additive manufacturing to embed highly accurate fiber optic sensors in heat- and radiation-resistant materials, allowing for real-time monitoring that could lead to greater insights and safer reactors.
By automating the production of neptunium oxide-aluminum pellets, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have eliminated a key bottleneck when producing plutonium-238 used by NASA to fuel deep space exploration.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is collaborating with industry on six new projects focused on advancing commercial nuclear energy technologies that offer potential improvements to current nuclear reactors and move new reactor designs closer to deployment.
Scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory performed a corrosion test in a neutron radiation field to support the continued development of molten salt reactors.
Two leaders in US manufacturing innovation, Thomas Kurfess and Scott Smith, are joining the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to support its pioneering research in advanced manufacturing.
The United Kingdom’s National Nuclear Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have agreed to cooperate on a wide range of nuclear energy research and development efforts that leverage both organizations’ unique expertise and capabilities.
The construction industry may soon benefit from 3D printed molds to make concrete facades, promising lower cost and production time. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are evaluating the performance of 3D printed molds used to precast concrete facades in a 42-story buildin...
A tiny vial of gray powder produced at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the backbone of a new experiment to study the intense magnetic fields created in nuclear collisions.
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.
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.