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In fall 2020, Kairos Power selected Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to build its advanced nuclear reactor due to the area's strong nuclear expertise and infrastructure. This project, along with other new nuclear ventures like Ultra Safe Nuclear and Type One Energy, highlights a growing trend of nuclear industry resurgence in East Tennessee, supported by local and state investments aiming to make the region a major nuclear technology hub.
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