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 ...

The research team used two distributed sensors and leveraged two quantum resources for increasing detection sensitivity: ...

We need to build grid-scale energy storage that is reliable and robust. This is especially important for addressing power ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

The software, named MIJAMP, detects patterns of DNA sequences centered around methylation chemical markers, which function as gene on/off switches. These chemical modifications influence how microbes ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are breathing new life into the scientific understanding of neptunium, a unique, radioactive, metallic element — and a key ...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT), are partnering to establish a world-class facility that will drive ...