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ORNL is in the fight against COVID-19

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In the race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.

Kat Royston: Finding excitement in nuclear physics

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As a teenager, Kat Royston discovered that physics could give her answers to her questions about the ways the world works. Now, as a researcher in ORNL's Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division, she works on unraveling the mysteries of fission and fusion around the world - including research for the ITER and JET fusion experiments.

Big science, tiny snail

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Sometimes conducting big science means discovering a species not much larger than a grain of sand.

This happened for Evin Carter, a research associate and wildlife ecologist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who helped discover a new species of cave snail just outside the Oak Ridge Reservation, an area that includes ORNL and parts of the city of Oak Ridge.

Oak Ridge neutron facilities ramping up research to combat COVID-19

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At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, it's all-hands-on-deck for the world-leading experts in neutron scattering as they enter the fight against COVID-19. Researchers at the lab's Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor have a plan of attack to unleash a full barrage of neutron capabilities in an ambitious set of experiments that will provide critical pieces of information about the virus's biological structure and how it behaves.

Story tips: Molding matter atom by atom and seeing inside uranium particles

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Molding matter atom by atom and seeing inside uranium particles

Journal: Carbon
Funder: Department of Energy Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Laboratory-Directed Research and Development program

Fish story: ORNL researchers use 3D printing, sensors to create models for hydropower testing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL scientists are combining their expertise in environmental science, physics, sensors and additive manufacturing to create model fish for use in testing of hydropower turbine design potential impacts on targeted species. The project supports healthy ecosystems and hydropower--the nation's largest renewable energy resource.

VERA nuclear reactor simulation software licensed commercially for first time

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A software package, 10 years in the making, that can predict the behavior of nuclear reactors' cores with stunning accuracy has been licensed commercially for the first time.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy

Self-assembly required: Neutrons probe novel polymer behavior for biomedical materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

LSU researchers are using neutron scattering at ORNL to study crystallization-driven self-assembly, a technique for forming nanoscale solid materials from solutions to understand how the technique could be used to craft controlled-shape nanostructures from polymers known as polypeptoids.

ORNL neutrons add advanced polarization capability for measuring magnetic materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neutron scattering instruments at ORNL's HFIR and SNS are undergoing upgrades which will enable them to study magnetic phenomena previously not possible in the US. Incorporating a device for spherical neutron polarimetry enables the ability to characterize complex magnetic systems in new dimensions for materials that could be developed for enhanced data storage and quantum computing technologies.

ORNL team builds portable diagnostic for fusion experiments from off-the-shelf items

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL's new portable diagnostic for fusion experiments built from off-the-shelf items will be tested and then taken to two or three experimental plasma devices elsewhere in the United States.

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