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 ...

This visualization shows moderately large pressure fluctuations within a 35-trillion-grid-point turbulence simulation, ...

Newly elected National Academy of Engineering member Scott Smith is pictured at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL in front of the DMG MORI Ultrasonic 60 eVo advanced machining system.

Employees of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and its managing contractor, UT-Battelle, raised $1,066 ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were part of a team that identified the existence of a unique genetic code in microbes that can expand cellular building blocks ...

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The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment achieved its first self-sustaining nuclear reaction on June 1, 1965. Three years later, on Oct. 8, 1968, it became the first reactor ever to run on uranium-233. MSRE ...