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![Ron Graves (right) with fellow Tennessee Automotive Manufacturers Association Hall of Fame inductee former Gov. Phil Bredesen (left) and TAMA President Rick Youngblood. Ron Graves (right) with fellow Tennessee Automotive Manufacturers Association Hall of Fame inductee former Gov. Phil Bredesen (left) and TAMA President Rick Youngblood.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Ron_TAMA_0.jpeg?itok=Io_izR8j)
Sitting in the driver’s seat comes naturally to Ron Graves, the recently retired head of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s sustainable transportation program. Graves has logged more than 100 days on national racetracks like Daytona, Road Atlanta, and Pocono where he routinely reache...
![2016 Billion-Ton Report 2016 Billion-Ton Report](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/billiontoncover.jpg?itok=GAyMDn7q)
The 2016 Billion Ton Report, jointly released by the U.S. Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, concludes that the United States has the potential to sustainably produce at least 1 billion dry tons of nonfood biomass resources annually by 2040.
![Simon Pallin Simon Pallin](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2016-P03211%5B1%5D.jpg?itok=hdeihAm_)
A scientist that sings opera and performs in musical theater? Sure. If you're a Renaissance Man like Simon Pallin. Pallin is a researcher in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Buildings Technologies Research & Integration Center. But his early interests and activities reveal a versatile person that could have chosen a number of occupations.
![Temperature is represented by different colors for this heat sink for a 50-kilowatt DC-to-DC converter with red being the hottest. Temperature is represented by different colors for this heat sink for a 50-kilowatt DC-to-DC converter with red being the hottest.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/3-D%20heat%20tip_0.jpg?itok=LlDjQU2S)
![Temperature is represented by different colors for this heat sink for a 50-kilowatt DC-to-DC converter with red being the hottest. Temperature is represented by different colors for this heat sink for a 50-kilowatt DC-to-DC converter with red being the hottest.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/inspections%20on%20the%20fly.png?itok=huO6X1rA)
Production run spot checks of materials for lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells could be a thing of the past because of a process developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The infrared/thermal nondestructive evaluation technique invented by a team led by David Wood examines key parameters such as porosity and thickness of the coating in real time without destroying product.
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![Illustration shows the one dimensional Yb ion chain in the quantum magnet Yb2Pt2Pb. The Yb orbitals are depicted as the iso-surfaces, and the green arrows indicate the antiferromagnetically aligned Yb magnetic moments. Illustration shows the one dimensional Yb ion chain in the quantum magnet Yb2Pt2Pb. The Yb orbitals are depicted as the iso-surfaces, and the green arrows indicate the antiferromagnetically aligned Yb magnetic moments.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Obitals-1a%5B3%5D.jpg?itok=aDdGBJgc)
![Berkelium-249, contained in the greenish fluid in the tip of the vial, was crucial to the experiment that discovered element 117. It was made in the research reactor at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Berkelium-249, contained in the greenish fluid in the tip of the vial, was crucial to the experiment that discovered element 117. It was made in the research reactor at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/berkelium-249.png?itok=U3_sHwYQ)
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Inorganic Chemistry Division has published a Provisional Recommendation for the names and symbols of the recently discovered superheavy elements 113, 115, 117, and 118.