Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Solving the Big Problems | ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world’s premier research institution, empowering leaders and teams to pursue breakthroughs in an environment marked by operational excellence and engagement with the communities where we live and work. …
Organization - ORNL
ORNL's capabilities include Biology and Environment, Clean Energy, Fusion and Fission, Isotopes, Materials, National Security, Neutron Science, and Supercomputing.
2024 in review: ORNL’s top science news stories | ORNL
Dec 30, 2024 · The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory marked another year of groundbreaking research and innovation in 2024, as detailed in the year’s top stories. These diverse accomplishments underscore ORNL’s approach of translating fundamental discoveries into scientific solutions that ...
Geospatial Data Sets - ORNL
Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD)—ORNL helped provided many of the nation’s authoritative geospatial datasets for critical infrastructure analysis and protection, preparedness planning, and crisis management.Led by the Department of Homeland Security, HIFLD hosts more than 400 open data layers for operational, situational, and strategic …
National lab collaboration enables faster, safer inspection of …
4 days ago · A research partnership between two Department of Energy national laboratories has accelerated inspection of additively manufactured nuclear components, and the effort is now expanding to inspect nuclear fuels. Idaho National Laboratory is using a software algorithm developed by Oak Ridge National ...
Solving the big problems | ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL researchers apply unique facilities, sophisticated tools, and signature strengths in neutron science, high-performance computing, advanced materials, biology and environmental science, nuclear science and engineering, isotopes, and national security research to …
Who We Are - ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory marked three quarters of a century as a research institution in 2018. A few areas at the Department of Energy national laboratory still look like they did in 1943, particularly the Graphite Reactor Museum, where visitors can roam where physicist Enrico Fermi worked with other scientists and technicians in spartan, hastily constructed conditions, cloaked …
What We Do - ORNL
We conduct world-leading research that translates science into solutions for the world’s biggest problems. Our translational R&D approach spans fundamental science to demonstration and deployment, leveraging signature strengths in materials, neutrons, nuclear, and computing sciences. We play a ...
Two paths, many benefits
Dec 12, 2024 · Project lead Edgar Lara-Curzio said the effort provides three key benefits: Enabling wider adoption of electric vehicles to slow climate change impacts; protecting national security by reducing dependence on foreign materials; and bringing economic development to former coal mining communities.
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5 days ago · ORNL’s annual workshop has become the premier forum for molten salt reactor, or MSR, collaboration and innovation, convening industry, academia and government experts to further advance MSR research and development.