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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 9-Sep-2025 07:11 ET (9-Sep-2025 11:11 GMT/UTC)

Chuck Kessel: Forging paths for fusion's future

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Chuck Kessel leads the national Blanket and Fuel Cycle program, the national Fusion Energy Systems Studies program and the Virtual Laboratory of Technology and co-leads the Liquid-Metal Plasma-Facing Components program. He's devoted his career to making commercial fusion power a viable future option.

ORNL, partners receive more than $4 million to advance AI control of complex systems

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The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and three partnering institutions have received $4.2 million over three years to apply artificial intelligence to the advancement of complex systems in which human decision making could be enhanced via technology.

ORNL researcher studies individualized isotopes' impact by targeting cancer

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A radioisotope researcher in the Radioisotope Science and Technology Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Davern is focusing on ways to use nanoparticles -- particles 100 nanometers or smaller that can have special properties -- to contain those radioisotopes and deliver them directly to cancer cells, where they can decay into different isotopes that irradiate those cells.

Oak Ridge National Lab industry collaboration enables job growth, N95 mask production in Florida

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A collaboration between the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Florida-based medical device manufacturer has led to the addition of 500 jobs in the Miami area to support the mass production of N95 respirator masks.

Colorado School of Mines researchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief

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Researchers from the Colorado School of Mines used neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor to measure residual stress of welds used to make large steel tanks that store molten salts for industrial concentrating solar plants.

Additively manufactured components by ORNL headed for TVA nuclear reactor

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ORNL has 3D printed a channel bracket to go into reactors at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant this spring, to demonstrate the viability of pre-qualified additively manufactured reactor components.

Neutrons reveal behavior of cholesterol in membranes

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Neutron scattering at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has shown that cholesterol stiffens simple lipid membranes, a finding that may help us better understand the functioning of human cells.

ORNL, DOE unveil new capabilities for advanced manufacturing recycling and autonomous vehicles

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Department of Energy officials dedicated the launch of two clean energy research initiatives that focus on the recycling and recovery of advanced manufacturing materials and on connected and autonomous vehicle technologies.

Fast fabrication: ORNL develops, produces metal hydride for moderator in 3D-printed reactor

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Researchers thought yttrium hydride would be an ideal moderator for the new Transformational Challenge Reactor, but no one had yet figured out how to produce the large, crack-free pieces needed. An ORNL scientist developed a process and invented a machine to do that -- in only 10 months.

First fiber-optic nanotip electron gun enables easier nanoscale research

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Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Nebraska have developed an easier way to generate electrons for nanoscale imaging and sensing, providing a useful new tool for material science, bioimaging and fundamental quantum research.

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