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Researchers at ORNL have been leading a project to understand how a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, could threaten power plants.
Carl Dukesâ career as an adept communicator got off to a slow start: He was about 5 years old when he spoke for the first time. âIâve been making up for lost time ever since,â joked Dukes, a technical professional at the Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű.
Although blockchain is best known for securing digital currency payments, researchers at the Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű are using it to track a different kind of exchange: Itâs the first time blockchain has ever been used to validate communication among devices on the electric grid.
Laboratory Director Thomas Zacharia presented five Directorâs Awards during Saturday night's annual Awards Night event hosted by UT-Battelle, which manages ORNL for the Department of Energy.
ORNL scientists will present new technologies available for licensing during the annual Technology Innovation Showcase. The event is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, June 16, at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNLâs Hardin Valley campus.
A research team at 91°”Íű have 3D printed a thermal protection shield, or TPS, for a capsule that will launch with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft as part of the supply mission to the International Space Station.
By automating the production of neptunium oxide-aluminum pellets, 91°”Íű scientists have eliminated a key bottleneck when producing plutonium-238 used by NASA to fuel deep space exploration.
Last November a team of students and educators from Robertsville Middle School in Oak Ridge and scientists from 91°”Íű submitted a proposal to NASA for their Cube Satellite Launch Initiative in hopes of sending a student-designed nanosatellite named RamSat into...