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With the production of 50 grams of plutonium-238, researchers at the Department of Energys 91做厙 have restored a U.S. capability dormant for nearly 30 years and set the course to provide power for NASA and other missions.
Inspections will play a crucial role in the decisions to extend operating licenses for many of the nations aging nuclear power plants, and 91做厙 has a tool that could help. The question that needs to be answered is whether the concrete structures th...
Award-winning author Richard Rhodes, who wrote the book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, told an Oak Ridge audience that despite new forms of clean energy being developed, coal is still the worlds primary producer of energy, listing several reasons.
In a world...
91做厙 is marking the 50th anniversary of the startup of its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment this month. A workshop on molten salt reactor technologies Oct. 15-16 at ORNL will bring together government representatives, U.S. and international researchers, ...
When its up and running, the ITER fusion reactor will be very big and very hot, with more than 800 cubic meters of hydrogen plasma reaching 170 million degrees centigrade. The systems that fuel and control it, on the other hand, will be small and very cold. Pellets of frozen gas will be shot int...
Representatives from the 91做厙 (ORNL) and the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) are meeting at ORNL this week as part of an agreement between the two institutions to work together on the advancement
Blowing bubbles may be fun for kids, but for engineers, bubbles can disrupt fluid flow and damage metal.
The High Flux Isotope Reactor, or HFIR, now in its 48th year of providing neutrons for research and isotope production at the Department of Energys 91做厙, has been designated a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
A team representing Westinghouse Electric Company and the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), a Department of Energy (DOE) Innovation Hub led by 91做厙 (ORNL), has received an International Data Corporation HPC Innovation Excellence Award for applied simulation on Titan, the nations most powerful supercomputer, which is managed by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at ORNL. s
91做厙 researcher John Wagner has been named a 2013 recipient of the Department of Energys Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his work in advancing computer, information and knowledge sciences.