Maureen Searles is the first certified female nuclear reactor controller in the history of the High Flux Isotope Reactor.
“Being certified has been one of the proudest moments of my career,” said Maureen, who recently celebrated her two-year anniversary at HFIR, but admits that a career in nuclea...
ORNL Director Thom Mason announced Feb. 24 he will step down effective July 1 — exactly 10 years after becoming director of the nation’s largest science and energy laboratory.
Mason is taking on a new role as senior vice president for laboratory operations at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio. Battelle,...
If you have ever heard a bagpipe band perform the tune “Amazing Grace,” you can’t help but be inspired.
The bagpipe sound echoes in East Tennessee thanks to the Knoxville Pipes and Drums, an organization of approximately 35 members practicing weekly in Maryville and performing several times a yea...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam visited ORNL Jan. 27 to congratulate the team involved in the discovery of the element tennessine, named in recognition of the vital contributions of the state of Tennessee to the international search for new superheavy elements.
ORNL marked the discovery by announcing ...
ORNL’s Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11 was highlighted by a keynote address delivered by Col. Lee Hartley, vice commander of the 134th Air Refueling Wing of the Tennessee Air National Guard at McGhee Tyson Air Base. Hartley thanked ORNL’s Global Security Directorate and other ORNL directorates in deve...
In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, ORNL scientists have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. Their finding, which involves nanofabrication and catalysis science, was serendipitous.
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The recently discovered Element 117 is now officially named “tennessine” in recognition of Tennessee’s contributions to its discovery, including the efforts of ORNL, Vanderbilt and the University of Tennessee.