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25-Nov-2024

Nuclear is here ... and here and here

East Tennessee has become the nerve center for a resurgent nuclear industry. Discover why the region, home to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is so attractive to this next generation of nuclear businesses.

22-Nov-2024

24s: A businesslike name for a ‘high-performing machine’

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

The latest addition to the computational arsenal of Jefferson Lab is an extraordinary machine with the admittedly ordinary name of “24s.” The 24s cluster at Jefferson Lab will work to unlock the mysteries of the nucleus of the atom. It was funded by the Nuclear and Particle Physics LQCD Computing Initiative of DOE’s Office of Nuclear Physics.

22-Nov-2024

Standing guard against network invaders

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Anyone who has flown on a commercial flight, crossed an international border, visited a government building or attended a concert knows you’re not getting inside until you pass the security guards.

21-Nov-2024

A new era for batteries: Argonne leads $50 million sodium-ion innovation push

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A consortium of 13 national laboratories and universities aims to develop high-energy, long-lasting sodium-ion batteries that are made from inexpensive, abundant materials and reduce U.S. reliance on critical elements used in electric-vehicle batteries.

21-Nov-2024

INL hosts forensics training for Ukraine to deter nuclear threats

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

It’s a long way from the Donbas region of Ukraine to Idaho, but Ukrainian officials recently made the trip to learn about collecting evidence after a nuclear attack.

20-Nov-2024

SLAC celebrates 50 years of Nobel-winning discovery in particle physics

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In 1974, the independent discovery of the J/psi particle at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory rocked the physics world, and entire textbooks had to be rewritten. Earlier this month, SLAC hosted a symposium to celebrate the milestone.

20-Nov-2024

The Fantastic Four: Open Quantum Initiative undergraduate fellows at Argonne share their research experiences

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Four summer undergrad fellows conducting research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory talk about their work developing quantum technologies and how they’re excited to be a part of a burgeoning field.

19-Nov-2024

University of Illinois Chicago students write the book on automating diamond membrane creation for quantum devices

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

During a summer at Argonne, UIC computer science and information science students develop a technique for automating a manually intensive stage in the creation of a qubit-host material.

18-Nov-2024

Frontier supercomputer hits new highs in third year of exascale

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The HPE Cray EX supercomputing system reported new highs for problem-solving speeds this week, updated for the TOP500 announcement at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, or SC24, in Atlanta. The score earned Frontier the No. 2 spot on the November 2024 TOP500 list, which ranks the fastest supercomputers in the world.

18-Nov-2024

Adjusting accelerators with help from machine learning

DOE/US Department of Energy

Banks of computer screens stacked two and three high line the walls. The screens are covered with numbers and graphs that are unintelligible to an untrained eye. But they tell a story to the operators staffing the particle accelerator control room. The numbers describe how the accelerator is speeding up tiny particles to smash into targets or other particles.