Caleigh Samuels, radiation dosimetry lead for the Center for Radiation Protection Knowledge (CRPK) at the Department of ...

ORNL uses advanced modeling, simulation and high-performance computing to help utilities, reactor developers and regulators evaluate reactor performance, safety and licensing before construction ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Isotope R&D and Production (IRP) program has re-established and revolutionized its domestic stable isotope enrichment capabilities. Led by ...

David Radford has built his career on helping his fellow scientists see what would otherwise remain invisible. A nuclear ...

A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Cleveland Clinic and IBM (NYSE: IBM), has calculated nine molecular configurations of a promising material to produce fuel for fusion ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s National (ORNL) Transportation Research Center have developed a novel electric motor drive desig ...

Energy storage is becoming critical to grid resilience and electricity affordability because battery systems can help balance supply and demand and stabilize power. Long battery l ...

UT-Battelle manages ORNL for DOE’s Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. DOE’s Office of Science is working to address some ...

Key points ORNL researchers have developed advanced tools to immediately detect abnormal power grid conditions that lead to wildfires, equipment damage and blackouts. The approach incorporates ...

Additive manufacturing enables rapid, customized, and affordable production of components for low-head micro-hydropower systems, significantly reducing barriers to harnessing energy. Of the ...

Security was a little different back then. Sometimes, Blevins would come in for an extra few hours of work at the Graphite Reactor on a Saturday, and he’d even bring his children. Rody and Teresa ...

As the U.S. reimagines its nuclear future, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are experimenting with molten lead and next-generation materials to reinvent a classic reactor design for a new ...