ORNL is committed to supporting U.S. energy needs by pursuing strategic research that advances a wide variety of affordable, abundant and competitive nuclear technologies, and strengthens national ...

A recent testing campaign led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has shown that a prototype high temperature fission chamber — a sensor that detects neutrons — can keep its ...

To meet the growing demand for faster scientific discovery that strengthens the bioeconomy, plant scientists worked with ...

We need to build grid-scale energy storage that is reliable and robust. This is especially important for addressing power ...

The research team used two distributed sensors and leveraged two quantum resources for increasing detection sensitivity: ...

Clusters of 10 tantalum atoms, arranged in triangles, create stress in the crystal’s structure. This stress unlocks unique magnetic properties, essential for future technologies such as quantum ...

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Born and Raised in Highland Park, Illinois, Graduated Highland Park High School 1976, Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Geology and a B.A. in Anthropology in 1980 ...

ORNL has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development of stress-tolerant crops for new fuels, chemicals ...

To unravel the mysteries of materials at all scales, from quantum phenomena to microstructure, empowering the design of revolutionary materials and processes for an abundant and affordable energy ...