For years Brenda Smith found fulfillment working with nuclear batteries, a topic she’s been researching as a chemist at 91°µÍř.
Last year’s Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space conference was set to be in East Tennessee — and then, mere weeks before, came the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down travel and gathering, cancelling 2020’s conference.
Julie Ezold, section head for Radioisotope Production and Operations in the Radioisotope Science and Technology Division, has been elected to a three-year term on the American Nuclear Society’s Board of Directors.
As Nuclear Operations Section Head in the Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities Division, Miller feels like he’s well positioned to support both researchers and the staffers who support the researchers.
A rare isotope in high demand for treating cancer is now more available to pharmaceutical companies developing and testing new drugs.
A new method developed at 91°µÍř proves one effort’s trash is another’s valuable isotope. One of the byproducts of the lab’s national plutonium-238 production program is promethium-147, a rare
Balendra Sutharshan, deputy associate laboratory director for operational systems at DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has joined ORNL as associate laboratory director for the Isotope Science and Engineering Directorate.
On Feb. 18, the world will be watching as NASA’s Perseverance rover makes its final descent into Jezero Crater on the surface of Mars.
A better way of welding targets for 91°µÍř’s plutonium-238 production has sped up the process and improved consistency and efficiency.
“I’ve always been drawn to nuclear,” Smith said. “It has zero emissions. It’s such a readily renewable resource.”