NRC ‘indicates acceptance’ of Kairos safety evaluation
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a draft safety evaluation report indicating its initial acceptance of Kairos Power's source term…
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Darwin on fast forward: ORNL study on COVID-19 earns Gordon Bell Special Prize nomination
Scientists used the nation's fastest supercomputer to teach an algorithm the language of molecules to search for COVID-19 treatments. “The approach …
Ten ORNL scientists among world’s most highly cited researchers
Ten scientists from DOE's ORNL are among the world’s most highly cited researchers, according to a bibliometric analysis conducted by the scientific…
Y-12 Production Informs Research through Mid-Career Professional Exchange with ORNL
The Mid-Career Professional Exchange project, sponsored by the NNSA’s Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, seeks to educate researchers thro…
General Fusion Establishes U.S. Headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
General Fusion announced its new United States base of operations in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the company advances plans for a first-of-a-kind commerc…
OREM Disposes Low-Dose Uranium-233, Supports Cancer Research
OREM and its contractor Isotek successfully completed processing and disposing the low-dose inventory of uranium (U)-233 stored at ORNL this month, en…
Seven ORNL Technologies Win R&D 100 Research Awards
Research teams from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their technologies have received seven 2021 R&D 100 Awards, plus sp…
Oak Ridge Students’ Satellite Now in Orbit
The Robertsville Middle School cube-shaped satellite — dubbed RamSat for the school’s mascot was Launched June 3 from the NASA Kennedy Space Cente…
Quick Detection of Uranium Isotopes Helps Safeguard Nuclear Materials
Analytical chemists at DOE's ORNL have developed a rapid way to measure isotopic ratios of uranium and plutonium collected on environmental swipes, w…
Researchers Reach Quantum Networking Milestone in Real-World Environment
A team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Stanford University and Purdue University developed and demonstrated a no…