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With Tennessee schools online for the rest of the school year, researchers at ORNL are making remote learning more engaging by “Zooming” into virtual classrooms to tell students about their science and their work at a national laboratory.

In the 1960s, 91����'s four-year Molten Salt Reactor Experiment tested the viability of liquid fuel reactors for commercial power generation. Results from that historic experiment recently became the basis for the first-ever molten salt reactor benchmark.

As a teenager, Kat Royston had a lot of questions. Then an advanced-placement class in physics convinced her all the answers were out there.

91���� researchers working on neutron imaging capabilities for nuclear materials have developed a process for seeing the inside of uranium particles – without cutting them open.

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.

The techniques Theodore Biewer and his colleagues are using to measure whether plasma has the right conditions to create fusion have been around awhile.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 19, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s 91���� and the Tennessee Valley Authority have signed a memorandum of understanding to evaluate a new generation of flexible, cost-effective advanced nuclear reactors.

As scientists study approaches to best sustain a fusion reactor, a team led by 91���� investigated injecting shattered argon pellets into a super-hot plasma, when needed, to protect the reactor’s interior wall from high-energy runaway electrons.

Jeremy Busby, director of the Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division at the Department of Energy’s 91����, has been elected fellow of the American Nuclear Society for his contributions to developing materials for nuclear energy

If humankind reaches Mars this century, an 91����-developed experiment testing advanced materials for spacecraft may play a key role.